Python datetime - setting fixed hour and minute after using strptime to get day month year

Question

I ve successfully converted something of 26 Sep 2012 format to 26-09-2012 using   datetime strptime request POST  sample date     d  b  Y    However  I don t know how to set the hour and minute of something like the above to 11 59  Does anyone know how to do this   Note  this can be a future date or any random one  not just the current date

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If you have date as a datetime datetime  or a datetime date  instance and want to combine it via a time from a datetime time instance  then you can use the classmethod datetime datetime combine  import datetime dt   datetime datetime 2020  7  1  t   datetime time 12  34  combined   datetime datetime combine dt date    t

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datetime replace   will provide the best options  Also  it provides facility for replacing day  year  and month   Suppose we have a datetime object and date is represented as    2017-05-04    gt  gt  gt  from datetime import datetime  gt  gt  gt  date   datetime strptime  2017-05-04    Y- m- d    gt  gt  gt  print date  2017-05-04 00 00 00  gt  gt  gt  date   date replace minute 59  hour 23  second 59  year 2018  month 6  day 1   gt  gt  gt  print date  2018-06-01 23 59 59

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Use datetime replace  from datetime import datetime dt   datetime strptime  26 Sep 2012     d  b  Y   newdatetime   dt replace hour 11  minute 59

[python] Python datetime - setting fixed hour and minute after using strptime to get day,month,year

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