creating date/time stamp from dataframe values

[kiki1113]

I have a data frame that includes the following values:

Date
07/12/17

Start Time
05:00 PM

Each of these is currently stored as strings.

I need to format/concatenate this information to be in the following format:

'2017-07-12 17:00'

I'm new to python and most of the solutions I've found don't apply to pandas data frames.

[gruntfutuk]

I think the df side is a distraction. The data you want is available as simple strings in a known format, namely:

1. date string in the format dd/mm/yy e.g. int('07/12/17'[:2]) will give you 7.
   
2. time string in the format hh:mm xx e.g. int('05:23 PM'[3:5]) will give you 23.
   

making it easy, without using any additional functions, to do some simple calculations and generate the strings you want.