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strftime() to format this struct_time into a string of your desired 12-hour format. %I is a directive that tells Python to give the hour in the 12-hour format. Additionally, you may include the %p directive which will display “AM” or “PM”. Hope this answered your question!
strptime is short for "parse time" where strftime is for "formatting time". That is, strptime is the opposite of strftime though they use, conveniently, the same formatting specification.
The strftime() method takes one or more format codes as an argument and returns a formatted string based on it. We imported datetime class from the datetime module. It's because the object of datetime class can access strftime() method. The datetime object containing current date and time is stored in now variable.
The strftime() function is used to convert date and time objects to their string representation. It takes one or more input of formatted code and returns the string representation. Syntax : strftime(format) Returns : It returns the string representation of the date or time object.
The Python time.strftime docs say:
When used with the strptime() function, the
%pdirective only affects the output hour field if the%Idirective is used to parse the hour.
Sure enough, changing your %H to %I makes it work.
format = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M %p'
The format is using %H instead of %I. Since %H is the "24-hour" format, it's likely just discarding the %p information. It works just fine if you change the %H to %I.
You used %H (24 hour format) instead of %I (12 hour format).
Try replacing %H (Hour on a 24-hour clock) with %I (Hour on a 12-hour clock) ?
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> print(datetime.today().strftime("%H:%M %p"))
15:31 AM
Try replacing %I with %H.
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