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S Andrew
S Andrew

Reputation: 7218

How to convert a/p (am/pm) time value in python to 24hr format

I am reading a csv file which has a time field as 3:50a and 4:25p. I need to convert this time values to 24 hour clock format as H:M for this I am doing:

datetime.strptime(str(time_value), '%I:%M').strftime('%H:%M')

where time_value is 3:50a or 4:25p. Now the problem is above line of code do not work because I have not inlucded the AM/PM tag which is %p in %I:%M and that is because in the csv file I am just getting a for AM and p for PM.

How can I deal with this situation. I need to convert the time_value to 24hr clock format. Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2154

Answers (1)

Bill Bell
Bill Bell

Reputation: 21643

Add an 'm' to the string you input to strptime and put the %p in its second argument,

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> time_value = '3:50a'
>>> datetime.strptime(str(time_value)+'m', '%I:%M%p').strftime('%H:%M')
'03:50'
>>> time_value = '4:25p'
>>> datetime.strptime(str(time_value)+'m', '%I:%M%p').strftime('%H:%M')
'16:25'

Upvotes: 3

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