`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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How to convert a specific integer to datetime in python
For example, I have the int 043017, which I want converted to 04/30/17 (April 30, 2017), I want to be able to convert any int of that format into datetime, how can this be accomplished?
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How to handle microseconds with 7 decimal precision instead of 6
I am processing a csv in python (3.5) that has a date field in it. The date contains a microsecond precision of 7 rather than 6, which I believe is the max that strptime can handle.
Without stripping the field the last character, is there a way…
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How Do I Parse a Date Time String That Includes Fractional Time?
I have a date time string:
20:48:01.469 UTC MAR 31 2016
I would like to convert this string representation of time to a struct tm using strptime, but my format string isn't working.
Is there a format specifier for fractional seconds? Perhaps %S,…
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PHP: `strptime()` alternative in Windows
My current PHP library doesn't work in Windows because strptime() function is not implemented in Windows.
Note: This function is not implemented on Windows platforms.
Source: http://php.net/manual/en/function.strptime.php
Does anyone know any…
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Python- strptime ValueError unconverted data remains: :00
I have a .csv file with a column that have dates which looks like "2/15/2016 1:44:00 PM",am running into following error with the code below...can anyone provide inputs on what is wrong?
CODE:-
import csv
import datetime as dt
import os
File =…
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Python Strptime Occasionally Missing Microseconds
I have data being passed in coming in with the format %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f.
So I work with the data based on that structure and once a blue moon something goes wrong. So I started dumping it out when something breaks and I noticed the microseconds…
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How to convert character string in microseconds to struct tm in C?
I have a string that contains microseconds since the epoch. How could I convert it to a time structure?
#include
#include
#include
int main ()
{
struct tm tm;
char buffer [80];
char *str…
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ValueError: time data '24:00' does not match format '%H:%M'
I'm having serious trouble converting 24 hour time to 12 hour.
def standard_time(t):
t = datetime.strptime(t, "%H:%M")
return t
When fed in '24:00' we get
ValueError: time data '24:00' does not match format '%H:%M'
I also attempt…
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Speeding up datetime.strptime
I am using the following piece of code to extract a date from a string:
try:
my_date = datetime.strptime(input_date, "%Y-%m-%d").date()
except ValueError:
my_date = None
If I run this 750,000 times, it takes 19.144 seconds (determined with…
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time.strptime() - argument 0 must be str, not bytes
Obviously I'm aware already that strftime and strptime doesn't like byte strings as parameters, however i'm in a pickle here because I sort of need to read a file content which has different character encodings saved in it and i need to handle them…
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Converting character in date/time format (POSIXct) works on Windows not Linux
I can't figure out why the following line of R script works perfectly fine on Windows (7, 64bit with R 3.0.2 64bit) but not on Linux (3.12.1-1-ARCH GNU/Linux 64bit with R 3.0.2 64bit):
Windows:
>strptime("2013-05-08 10:27:50", format="%Y-%m-%d…
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Parsing a YYYY-MM-DD date strictly on Linux
POSIX defines a handy function, strptime, that can be used for parsing dates and times. Thus, theoretically, if I have a date of the format "YYYY-MM-DD", I should be able to use strptime to parse it like this:
char myDate[] = "2012-01-01";
struct…
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Parsing string dates in ruby such as "28-May-10"
I tried parsing using
Date.parse("28-May-10").to_s
Returns 0010-5-28 (which is 2000 years off!)
How can I get ruby to interpret the two digit year properly.
There are plenty of string to date conversion tricks out there on google but most handle…
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Can I assume that strptime will always fill in missing values with 0?
I have the following Perl code:
print Time::Piece->strptime("2023:01:01 00:00:00.000", "%Y:%m:%d %H:%M:%S")->strftime("%Y:%m:%d %H:%M:%S") . "\n";
print Time::Piece->strptime("2023:01:02 00:00:00", "%Y:%m:%d %H:%M:%S%z")->strftime("%Y:%m:%d…
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Subtract SQL DATETIME from datetime.now() in Python
I have a DATETIME field in SQL. Its content is: 2012-08-26 13:00:00
I want to know how much time has passed from that date until now.
In Python 2.7, it's easy:
import time,datetime
start = datetime.datetime.strptime('2012-08-26 13:00:00', '%Y-%m-%d…
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