I'm currently having an issue with Python. I have a Pandas DataFrame and one of the columns is a string with a date. The format is : "%Y-%m-%d %H:%m:00.000". For example : "2011-04-24 01:30:00.000" I need to convert the entire column to integers. I tried to run this code, but it is extremely slow and I have a few million rows. for i in range(calls.shape[0]): calls['dateint'] = int(time.mktime(time.strptime(calls.DATE, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:00.000"))) Do you guys know how to convert the whole column to epoch time? Continue reading...