change multiple columns in pandas dataframe to datetime

Question

I have a dataframe of 13 columns and 55,000 rows I am trying to convert 5 of those rows to datetime, right now they are returning the type \'object\' and I need to transform thi

Answer 1

If you rather want to convert at load time, you could do something like this

date_columns = ['c1','c2', 'c3', 'c4', 'c5']
data = pd.read_csv('file_to_read.csv', parse_dates=date_columns)