Remove "seconds" and "minutes" from Pandas DataFrame column

For data like:

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame(
{'Date' : pd.date_range('1/1/2011', periods=5, freq='3675S'),
 'Num' : np.random.rand(5)})
                 Date       Num
0 2011-01-01 00:00:00  0.580997
1 2011-01-01 01:01:15  0.407332
2 2011-01-01 02:02:30  0.786035
3 2011-01-01 03:03:45  0.821792
4 2011-01-01 04:05:00  0.807869

      

I would like to remove the "minutes" and "seconds" information.

The following (mostly stolen from: How do I delete the Pandas data index "seconds" data? ) Work fine,

df = df.assign(Date = lambda x: pd.to_datetime(x['Date'].dt.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H')))
                 Date       Num
0 2011-01-01 00:00:00  0.580997
1 2011-01-01 01:00:00  0.407332
2 2011-01-01 02:00:00  0.786035
3 2011-01-01 03:00:00  0.821792
4 2011-01-01 04:00:00  0.807869

      

but it seems weird to convert date and time to string and then back to date. Is there a way to do this more directly?

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dt.round

This is how it should be done ... use dt.round

df.assign(Date=df.Date.dt.round('H'))

                 Date       Num
0 2011-01-01 00:00:00  0.577957
1 2011-01-01 01:00:00  0.995748
2 2011-01-01 02:00:00  0.864013
3 2011-01-01 03:00:00  0.468762
4 2011-01-01 04:00:00  0.866827

      

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One approach is to set the index and use resample

df.set_index('Date').resample('H').last().reset_index()

                 Date       Num
0 2011-01-01 00:00:00  0.577957
1 2011-01-01 01:00:00  0.995748
2 2011-01-01 02:00:00  0.864013
3 2011-01-01 03:00:00  0.468762
4 2011-01-01 04:00:00  0.866827

      

Another alternative is to separate the components date

andhour

df.assign(
    Date=pd.to_datetime(df.Date.dt.date) +
         pd.to_timedelta(df.Date.dt.hour, unit='H'))

                 Date       Num
0 2011-01-01 00:00:00  0.577957
1 2011-01-01 01:00:00  0.995748
2 2011-01-01 02:00:00  0.864013
3 2011-01-01 03:00:00  0.468762
4 2011-01-01 04:00:00  0.866827

      

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