Can't convert dates to datetime64

Question

The following piece of code:

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

data = pd.DataFrame({\'date\': (\'13/02/2012\', \'14/02/2012\')})
data[\'date\'] = data[         


        

Answer 1

Do this instead. Pandas keeps datestimes internally as datetime64[ns]. Conversions like this are very buggy (because of issues in various numpy version, 1.6.2 especially). Use the pandas routines, then operate like thesee are actual datetime objects. What are you trying to do?

In [30]: pandas.to_datetime(data['date'])
Out[30]: 
0   2012-02-13 00:00:00
1   2012-02-14 00:00:00
Name: date, dtype: datetime64[ns]