How do I convert a datetime to date?

Answer updated to Python 3.7 and more

Here is how you can turn a date-and-time object

(aka datetime.datetime object, the one that is stored inside models.DateTimeField django model field)

into a date object (aka datetime.date object):

from datetime import datetime

#your date-and-time object
# let's supposed it is defined as
datetime_element = datetime(2020, 7, 10, 12, 56, 54, 324893)

# where
# datetime_element = datetime(year, month, day, hour, minute, second, milliseconds)

# WHAT YOU WANT: your date-only object
date_element = datetime_element.date()

And just to be clear, if you print those elements, here is the output :

print(datetime_element)

2020-07-10 12:56:54.324893

print(date_element)

2020-07-10

you could enter this code form for (today date & Names of the Day & hour) : datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%y-%m-%d %a %H:%M:%S')

'19-09-09 Mon 17:37:56'

and enter this code for (today date simply): datetime.date.today().strftime('%y-%m-%d') '19-09-10'

for object : datetime.datetime.now().date() datetime.datetime.today().date() datetime.datetime.utcnow().date() datetime.datetime.today().time() datetime.datetime.utcnow().date() datetime.datetime.utcnow().time()

I use data.strftime('%y-%m-%d') with lambda to transfer column to date

Solved: AttributeError: 'Series' object has no attribute 'date'

You can use as below,

df["date"] = pd.to_datetime(df["date"]).dt.date

where in above code date contains both date and time (2020-09-21 22:32:00), using above code we can get only date as (2020-09-21)