Instance after pd.to_datetime?

Question

The below code returns false. What instance has a column that has been transformed using pd.to_datetime?

import datetime
import pandas as pd

d=pd.DataFrame({'time':['2021-03-23', '2022-03-21', '2022-08-18']})
d['time1']=pd.to_datetime(d.time)
isinstance(d.time1, datetime.date)

If I run:

print(d.time1.dtype)

It just returns...

dtype('<M8[ns]')

I've read this post about the dtype M8[ns] but I still can't figure out what instance it has.

Difference between data type 'datetime64[ns]' and '<M8[ns]'?