converting string to datetime object in Python

Question

I'm trying to convert a string into a datetime object...

time = '10:00:00'
date = '2016-10-03'
date = date + ' ' + time
print date
date = datetime.strptime(date, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%y')
print date

this prints out:

2016-10-03 10:00:00
2000-10-03 10:00:00

for some reason it changes the year date..

when I do:

date = '2016-10-03'
date = datetime.strptime(date, '%Y-%m-%d')
print date

It works correct and I get:

2016-10-03

How come when I add the time in there it changes the year?

Thanks

The %y at the end should be a %S --> seconds not year in the time. @McGrady beat me to it! Cheers! — Vivek Kalyanarangan
– Vivek Kalyanarangan, Commented Feb 20, 2017 at 10:41

McGrady · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-20 10:47:32Z

5

Try this:

time = '10:00:00'                                       
date = '2016-10-03'                                     
date = date + ' ' + time                                
print date                                              
print datetime.strptime(date, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')

%y Year without century as a zero-padded decimal number.
%Y Year with century as a decimal number.

It seems that you just made a misspelling.Maybe what you want is %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'.

See more details from datetime Python.Hope this helps.

edited Feb 20, 2017 at 10:47

answered Feb 20, 2017 at 10:40

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