pandas 只保留日期,使用pandas.to_datetime时，只保留日期部分

I am using pandas.to_datetime to parse the dates in my data. Pandas by default represent the dates with datetime64[ns] even though the dates are all daily only.

I wonder whether there is an elegant/clever way to convert the dates to datetime.date or datetime64[D] so that when I write the data to csv, the dates are not appended with 00:00:00. I know I can convert the type manually element-by-element:

[dt.to_datetime().date() for dt in df.dates]

But this is really slow since I have many rows and it sort of defeats the purpose of using pandas.to_datetime. Is there a way to convert the dtype of the entire column at once? Or alternatively, does pandas.to_datetime support a precision specification so that I can get rid of the time part while working with daily data?

解决方案

Since version 0.15.0 this can now be easily done using .dt to access just the date component:

df['just_date'] = df['dates'].dt.date