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BSHuniversity
BSHuniversity

Reputation: 368

Finding the format of my timestamp in Python

My time format is screwy, but it seemed workable, as a string with the following format:

'47:37:00'

I tried to set a variable where:

DT = '%H:%M:%S'

So I could find the difference between two times, but it's given me the following error:

ValueError: time data '47:37:00' does not match format '%H:%M:%S'

Is it possible there are more elements to my time stamps than I thought? Or that it's formatted in minutes/seconds/milliseconds? I can't seem to find documentation that would help me determine my time format so I could set DT and do arithmetic on it.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 406

Answers (2)

user3166450
user3166450

Reputation: 11

You wrote "I can't seem to find documentation that would help me determine my time format so I could set DT and do arithmetic on it"

Try this: https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html

Way down to the bottom.

And yes, when the %H is matched with 47, you get boom the error.

Upvotes: 1

echo
echo

Reputation: 84

It's because you set 47 to %H, that is not a proper value. Here is an example:

import datetime

dt = datetime.datetime.strptime('2016/07/28 12:37:00','%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S')

print dt

Output: 2016-07-28 12:37:00

Upvotes: 1

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