def parsed_df(**kwargs):
# First define the format and then define the function
timeFormat = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S UTC"
# This function will iterate over each string in a 1-d array
# and use Pandas' implementation of strptime to convert the string into a datetime object.
parseTime = lambda x: datetime.strptime(x, timeFormat)
return pd.read_csv('/path/to/file.csv',parse_dates=['time'], date_parser=parseTime).set_index('time')