`strptime` reads the time from the string s using the timeformat specifiers and converts it into seconds since the year 2000.
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datetime TypeError: 'datetime.datetime' object has no attribute '__getitem__'
What am I doing wrong here?
import datetime
someday = datetime.datetime(2014, 9, 23, 0, 0)
someday = datetime.datetime.strptime(someday[:10], '%Y-%m-%d')
print someday
Error:
TypeError: 'datetime.datetime' object has no attribute '__getitem__'

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Python 3.4 strptime() not working
I am trying to convert a string to datetime and it isn't working...
self.loadsList[loadID][5] = datetime.strptime(
self.loadsList[loadID][5]+" "+self.loadsList[loadID][6], "%x %X %z")
and it raises a Value Error.
ValueError: time data '11/08/2014…

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Why %z is not supported by python's strptime?
>>> datetime.strptime('2014-02-13 11:55:00 -0800', '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/_strptime.py", line…

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Perl strptime format differs from strftime
I'm trying to work with date strings formatted as:
YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss
strftime format for generating this string is %FT%T:
perl -MPOSIX=strftime -E 'say strftime q{%FT%T}, localtime;'
But when I try to parse this date string with…

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c++ strptime ignores Timezone when parsing
When I run the following code strptime seems to ignore the timezone value. Just sets value of the local timezone (which is +10).
This is the output, (Running on Linux, compiled with gcc 4.6.3):
-----------2013-04-24T9:47:06+400 -…

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R: strptime() and is.na () unexpected results
I have a data frame with roughly 8 million rows and 3 columns. I used strptime() in the following manner:
df$date.time <- strptime(df$date.time, "%m/%d/%y %I:%M:%S %p")
This works fine for all but 1104 of the rows, which I checked…

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Parse hours without leading zeroes by strptime in Python
Suppose you have time in this format:
a = [..., 800.0, 830.0, 900.0, 930.0, 1000.0, 1030.0, ...]
The problem is that leading zeroes for hours are missing. For example 00:30 is represented by 30, 08:00 is represented by 800. and 00:00 is represented…

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Converting date formats python - Unusual date formats - Extract %Y%M%D
I have a large data set with a variety of Date information in the following formats:
DAYS since Jan 1, 1900 - ex: 41213 - I believe these are from Excel http://www.kirix.com/stratablog/jd-edwards-date-conversions-cyyddd
YYDayofyear - ex…

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zoo/xts microsecond read issue
The data looks like
Time Set1 Set2
10:19:38.551629 16234 16236
10:19:41.408010 16234 16236
10:19:47.264204 16234 16236
I am trying to load this into zoo.
orig <-…

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python strptime wrong format with 12-hour hour
My string format currently is datetime.strptime(date_as_string, '%d/%m/%y %I:%M %p')
this unfortunately does not work with input such as 1/12/07 00:07 AM
How I can get strptime to recogize this format ?
EDIT:
ValueError: time data '1/12/07 00:07…

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Why is strptime is 4 hours off?
How do I use strptime to format "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ" into the correct UNIX timestamp?
I tried writing a method called testDateWithString (below).
But, it fails with error message:
'2011-12-27 08:35:46 +0000' should be equal to '2011-12-27 04:35:46…

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Implementing strftime and strptime for custom date class
I've written a custom date class for a non-Gregorian calendar system.
Is there an easy way to implement strftime and strptime without having to implement all the logic myself?
My class has a day, month and year field, so in principle all I would…

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Rust Polars: how to change column value from string to datetime
I'm reading my CSV file with polars, but there's a column with values that I need to convert to DateTime. I've managed to manipulate the String (remove dots) now I need to strptime to convert to DateTime. How can I do this in rust polars?
My old…

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Converting text to datetime.datetime object? (Error: ValueError: time data '2022-04-18T10:00:00-07:00' does not match format '%y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z')
I have a datetime.datetime object that gets stored as text in a text file. Later, I have to convert that text back to a datetime.datetime object. The object is in this format 2022-04-18T10:00:00-07:00 but I'm having trouble using the strp time…

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Using python datetime.datetime.strptime on windows with BST timezone
I need to parse many different dates in many different formats. I am having trouble with the following and wondered if anyopne could explain why;
The following works on a linux system:
from datetime import datetime
datetime.strptime('Tue 23 Aug 2011…

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