How can I account for period AM PM using strftime

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Specifically I have code that simplifies to this   from datetime import datetime date string    2009-11-29 03 17 PM  format     Y- m- d  H  M  p  my date   datetime strptime date string  format     This prints  2009-11-29 03 17 AM  print my date strftime format    What gives  Does Python just ignore the period specifier when parsing dates or am I doing something stupid

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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

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Try replacing  H  Hour on a 24-hour clock  with  I  Hour on a 12-hour clock

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The Python time strftime docs say      When used with the strptime   function  the  p directive only   affects the output hour field if the  I directive is used to parse   the hour    Sure enough  changing your  H to  I makes it work

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gt  gt  gt  from datetime import datetime  gt  gt  gt  print datetime today   strftime  quot  H  M  p quot    15 31 AM  Try replacing  I with  H

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You used  H  24 hour format  instead of  I  12 hour format

[python] How can I account for period (AM/PM) using strftime?

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