title: Extract date from string Pandas data frame
body: <p>I have this column Date_X in pandas dataframe which is a object. I am not able to use pandas to_datetime function here. I want to convert this column to a range of 1 to 365, using which I can carry on my analysis. </p>
  
  <pre><code>29JAN14:21:16:00
  01FEB14:00:11:00
  30JAN14:15:11:00
  01FEB14:00:07:00
  29JAN14:19:31:00
  30JAN14:23:52:00
  29JAN14:19:18:00
  30JAN14:16:46:00
  30JAN14:21:39:00
  31JAN14:17:40:00
  01FEB14:00:16:00
  </code></pre>