How to change the datetime format in Pandas - Stack Overflow My dataframe has a DOB column (example format 1 26 2016) which by default gets converted to Pandas dtype 'object' Converting this to date format with df['DOB'] = pd to_datetime(df['DOB']), the date gets converted to: 2016-01-26 and its dtype is datetime64[ns] Now I want to convert this date format to 01 26 2016 or any other general date