Convert to dd mm yyyy in python

Using a Python script, I need to read a CVS file where dates are formated as DD/MM/YYYY, and convert them to YYYY-MM-DD before saving this into a SQLite database.

This almost works, but fails because I don't provide time:

from datetime import datetime

lastconnection = datetime.strptime("21/12/2008", "%Y-%m-%d")

#ValueError: time data did not match format:  data=21/12/2008  fmt=%Y-%m-%d
print lastconnection

I assume there's a method in the datetime object to perform this conversion very easily, but I can't find an example of how to do it. Thank you.

asked Feb 2, 2009 at 10:01

Your example code is wrong. This works:

import datetime

datetime.datetime.strptime("21/12/2008", "%d/%m/%Y").strftime("%Y-%m-%d")

The call to strptime() parses the first argument according to the format specified in the second, so those two need to match. Then you can call strftime() to format the result into the desired final format.

Hans Z.

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answered Feb 2, 2009 at 10:09

unwindunwind

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you first would need to convert string into datetime tuple, and then convert that datetime tuple to string, it would go like this:

lastconnection = datetime.strptime("21/12/2008", "%d/%m/%Y").strftime('%Y-%m-%d')

answered Feb 2, 2009 at 10:07

SilentGhostSilentGhost

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I am new to programming. I wanted to convert from yyyy-mm-dd to dd/mm/yyyy to print out a date in the format that people in my part of the world use and recognise.

The accepted answer above got me on the right track.

The answer I ended up with to my problem is:

import datetime

today_date = datetime.date.today()
print(today_date)

new_today_date = today_date.strftime("%d/%m/%Y")
print (new_today_date)

The first two lines after the import statement gives today's date in the USA format (2017-01-26). The last two lines convert this to the format recognised in the UK and other countries (26/01/2017).

You can shorten this code, but I left it as is because it is helpful to me as a beginner. I hope this helps other beginner programmers starting out!

SiHa

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answered Jan 26, 2017 at 12:37

MarkMark

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Does anyone else else think it's a waste to convert these strings to date/time objects for what is, in the end, a simple text transformation? If you're certain the incoming dates will be valid, you can just use:

>>> ddmmyyyy = "21/12/2008"
>>> yyyymmdd = ddmmyyyy[6:] + "-" + ddmmyyyy[3:5] + "-" + ddmmyyyy[:2]
>>> yyyymmdd
'2008-12-21'

This will almost certainly be faster than the conversion to and from a date.

answered Feb 2, 2009 at 10:53

paxdiablopaxdiablo

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#case_date= 03/31/2020   

#Above is the value stored in case_date in format(mm/dd/yyyy )

demo=case_date.split("/")
new_case_date = demo[1]+"-"+demo[0]+"-"+demo[2]
#new format of date is (dd/mm/yyyy) test by printing it 
print(new_case_date)

answered Apr 10, 2020 at 13:19

If you need to convert an entire column (from pandas DataFrame), first convert it (pandas Series) to the datetime format using to_datetime and then use .dt.strftime:

def conv_dates_series(df, col, old_date_format, new_date_format):

    df[col] = pd.to_datetime(df[col], format=old_date_format).dt.strftime(new_date_format)
    
    return df

Sample usage:

import pandas as pd

test_df = pd.DataFrame({"Dates": ["1900-01-01", "1999-12-31"]})

old_date_format='%Y-%m-%d'
new_date_format='%d/%m/%Y'

conv_dates_series(test_df, "Dates", old_date_format, new_date_format)

    Dates
0   01/01/1900
1   31/12/1999

answered Apr 5, 2020 at 19:10

mirekphdmirekphd

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The most simplest way

While reading the csv file, put an argument parse_dates

df = pd.read_csv("sample.csv", parse_dates=['column_name'])

This will convert the dates of mentioned column to YYYY-MM-DD format

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answered May 9, 2021 at 8:16

Convert date format DD/MM/YYYY to YYYY-MM-DD according to your question, you can use this:

from datetime import datetime
lastconnection = datetime.strptime("21/12/2008", "%d/%m/%Y").strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
print(lastconnection)

answered Nov 2, 2021 at 9:42

RokiDGuptaRokiDGupta

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• df is your data frame
• Dateclm is the column that you want to change

This column should be in DateTime datatype.

df['Dateclm'] = pd.to_datetime(df['Dateclm'])

df.dtypes


#Here is the solution to change the format of the column

df["Dateclm"] = pd.to_datetime(df["Dateclm"]).dt.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')

print(df)

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answered Dec 30, 2021 at 8:33

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