diff --git a/currentdate.py b/currentdate.py
index 6995fb3..2a5a421 100644
--- a/currentdate.py
+++ b/currentdate.py
@@ -3,21 +3,26 @@
 Created on Thu Oct 24 22:42:50 2019
 
 @author: prabha
+
+Modified on Wed Feb 21 2024
+@author: Shahid
+
 """
 
 import pyspark
 from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
-from pyspark.sql.functions import col
-from pyspark.sql.functions import to_timestamp, current_timestamp
-from pyspark.sql.types import StructType, StructField, StringType, IntegerType, LongType
+from pyspark.sql.types import  DateType
+from pyspark.sql.functions import to_date
 
 spark = SparkSession.builder.appName('SparkByExamples.com').getOrCreate()
 
-schema = StructType([
-            StructField("seq", StringType(), True)])
+# Sample data with a string column representing dates
+data = [("1/12/2023",), ("2/15/2023",), ("3/20/2023",)]
+columns = ["date_str"]
 
-dates = ['1']
+df = spark.createDataFrame(data, columns)
 
-df = spark.createDataFrame(list('1'), schema=schema)
+# Convert the string column to a DateType
+df = df.withColumn("date", to_date("date_str", "M/d/yyyy").cast(DateType()))
 
-df.show()
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+df.show()