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Python Dates and Times in Python (2014) Dates and Times strftime & strptime

Stacey Normington
Stacey Normington
5,861 Points
Posted by Stacey Normington
Stacey Normington
5,861 Points

Where am I going wrong?

I have no idea where I'm going wrong treehouse is only saying try again anyone got any ideas

timestrings.py 
## Examples
# to_string(datetime_object) => "24 September 2012"
# from_string("09/24/12 18:30", "%m/%d/%y %H:%M") => datetime
import datetime

def to_string(date):
    date = datetime.datetime.strptime("19/24/12 18:30", "%d/%m/%Y %H:%M")
    return (date)

1 Answer

Frances Tang
Frances Tang
24,767 Points
Frances Tang
Frances Tang
24,767 Points 
import datetime

def to_string(date):
    d = date.strftime("%d %B %Y %H:%M")
    return d

I recommend this documentation: https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-strptime-behavior