<class 'datetime.time'> is not convertible to datetime

December 9, 2021

I want to convert datatype object to datetime but I have this error :

<class 'datetime.time'> is not convertible to datetime

Here is my code :

time_df = time_df.rename(columns={"TIME_START": "hour"})
time_df["hour"] = pd.to_datetime(time_df["hour"]).dt.time

data_h_df['hour'] = data_df['time_utc'].dt.time
data_h_df['hour'] = pd.to_datetime(data_h_df["hour"]).dt.time

I have two dataframes, my problem is hour variable I want to change datatype object to datetime.

>Solution :

Convert to strings:

data_h_df['hour'] = pd.to_datetime(data_h_df["hour"].astype(str)).dt.time

but why converted times to datetimes and then to times? In my opinion in data_h_df['hour'] are datetimes, expected ouput before your solution.