Time

How do you format time to be in 24-hours using Python? In Python you can format a datetime object to be displayed in 24-hour time using the format %H:%M. This is not to be confused with the 12-hour time which uses the format %I:%M and may have %p appended to the end to denote AM/PM. Here’s an example demonstrating the conversion of time from 12-hour format to a 24-hour format: ...

How do you format a string in the format of HH:MM AM/PM to 24-hour time in Python? To change a string in the format HH:MM AM/PM to 24-hour time in Python use the datetime.datetime.strptime(original_string, format_string) function located in the datetime library. As the datetime class needs to be imported from the datetime library you need to make sure you include the reference twice, otherwise you may get strptime AttributeError errors. Here’s an example of how this works: ...