datetime - Python: How to change a UTC timestamp from mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss AM to dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss AM

Question

I am trying to change the format of a UTC timestamp in a csv file but nothing seems to be working. It keeps saying that there is a ValueError does not match format '%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S %p' Below there is an example of the CSV column

Example of CSV column

df[' UTC Event Timestamp'] = df[' UTC Event Timestamp'].astype(str)
string_col = str(df)
string_col.strip()

datetime.strptime(string_col, '%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S %p')
datetime.strptime(string_col, '%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S %p').strftime('%d/%m/%Y %I:%M:%S %p')

print(string_col)

Answer 1

You can use

df['string_col'].apply(lambda row: datetime.strptime(row, '%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S %p').strftime('%d/%m/%Y %I:%M:%S %p'))

to convert the column in to datetime format.