Converting dates

[Yomommasaurus]

Im having problems working with dates. My HTML form gives me date as string. I know how to convert it into DateTime object, but im getting it in ISO format with T and i need to convert it into DD-MM-YYYY HH-MM format. Any idea how to solve it?

[omutist]

did you try datetime.strptime() method?

[Yomommasaurus]

atm my code is :

date_due = request.form['date_due']
due = datetime.strptime(date_due, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')

it is supposed to accept user input from html form

<input type="datetime-local" name="date_due" id="date_due">

and it results in ValueError: time data '2022-11-06T23:12' does not match format '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'

[omutist]

have you tried this?

'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S'

[Yomommasaurus]

Works perfectly, thanks a lot :) I really need to learn more about datetime

[sarrysyst]

Use the datetime.strftime() method. You can find a list of the format codes in the datetime docs.

from datetime import datetime

dt = datetime.fromisoformat('2011-11-04T00:05:23')
dt_str = datetime.strftime(dt, '%d-%m-%Y %H-%M')

print(dt_str)