Display Pure "Date"s Without Time

[cancan101]

I have a Series of "dates" (actually datetimes all at midnight), Is there any way to get this Series or column to render as just the date without the time string of "00:00:00"?

In [248]:
pd.Series([datetime(2013,1,1),datetime(2013,2,1)])

Out[248]:
0   2013-01-01 00:00:00
1   2013-02-01 00:00:00
dtype: datetime64[ns]

[jreback]

dupe of #3401

you can certainly make it a string,but no easy way ATM to do this. Its not hard, but the problem is that the output formatter would

• have to know to do it (say via config option, easy)
• have to determine in a relatively fast way whether to format this way (e.g. needs to figure out whether any dates need a time element), not too hard, but a bit tricky as you want to do this without looping thru a potentially big series

[cancan101]

@jreback Re: "looping thru a potentially big series", this should be simplified to loop over the elements that are going to be rendered which in most cases should be small number of elements.

[jreback]

yep...as I said...more of creating an option and working it into the code