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Python Dates and Times in Python (2014) Dates and Times Dating Methods

Michal Janek
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Strptime question

Kenneth mentions when showing strptime() while creating birthday that there is no hour in datetime, yet there are two 0,0 which were not typed in the string as it was:

'%Y-%m-%d' meaning we did not get hours back but why are those 0,0 there?

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
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Can you explain clearer?

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Chris Freeman
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Chris Freeman
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Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points

A datetime object has both a date and a time portion. If a time is not provided when the datetime is created, it is assumed to be 0 hour, 0 min: 12:00AM (midnight). The format guidance string is only used to interpret the source string. As long as there is sufficient information in the source string to create a datetime object based on the guidance string, then all other parameters are assumed to be zero.

Post back if this isn't clear enough.