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Nazrin Guliyeva
Nazrin Guliyeva

Reputation: 145

Time data does not match format - ValueError

I am trying to change string to datetime like below:

    max_datetime = datetime.strptime(max_date,'%y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')

However, I am getting the below-mentioned error:

ValueError: time data '2008-05-15 11:26:40' does not match format '%y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'

Any help will be appreciated!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 60

Answers (1)

Jonathan Herrera
Jonathan Herrera

Reputation: 6184

The documentation of datetime tells that %y (with a lowercase y) represents a two-digit year, while from the error-message we can see that your input, max_date has a four-digit year. A four-digit year is represented by %Y (with an uppercase Y). So this is the source of your error. Since the rest looks fine,

max_datetime = datetime.strptime(max_date, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

should do the job.

Upvotes: 2

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