Python Datetime.strptime Month Specifier Doesn't Seem To Work

The month format specifier doesn't seem to work. from datetime import datetime endDate = datetime.strptime('10 3 2011', '%j %m %Y') print endDate 2011-01-10 00:00:00 endDate = dat

Solution 1:

You can't mix the %j with others format code like %m because if you look in the table that you linked %j is the Day of the year as a decimal number [001,366] so 10 correspondent to the 10 day of the year so it's 01 of January ...

So you have just to write :

>>>datetime.strptime('10 2011', '%j %Y')
datetime.datetime(2011, 1, 10, 0, 0)

Else if you you wanted to use 10 as the day of the mount you should do :

>>>datetime.strptime('10 3 2011', '%d %m %Y')
datetime.datetime(2011, 3, 10, 0, 0)

Solution 2:

Isn't %j the "day of year" parser, which may be forcing strptime to choose January 21, overriding the %m rule?

Solution 3:

%j specifies a day of the year. It's impossible for the 10th day of the year, January 10, to occur in March, so your month specification is being ignored. Garbage In, Garbage Out.