Python strptime() format code '%H' for number of hours greater than 23?-CodePudding

I must add a given number of hours:minutes to a date, once I try to format the method string parameter to datetime I am getting the below error:

 myTime = '236:22'
 myTime_str = '%H:%M'
 myTime_time = datetime.strptime(myTime, myTime_str )

ValueError: time data '236:22' does not match format '%H:%M'

As I couldn't find a strptime() format code that allows the hour (236) to be greater than 23 I am wondering if is there other function or library, rather than datetime, that would help me to before addressing it "in the method"

CodePudding user response：

I must add a given number of hours:minutes to a date ...

You could use datetime.timedelta():

from datetime import date, timedelta

the_date = date.today()
print(the_date)

myTime = '236:22'
hours, minutes = map(int, myTime.split(":"))
the_date_ext = the_date   timedelta(hours=hours, minutes=minutes)
print(the_date_ext)

Output:

2022-08-12
2022-08-21

(This works too if the the_date is actually a datetime.datetime object.)

CodePudding user response：

I have solved the requirement as follows:

duration_hours = int(duration.split(':')[0])
duration_minutes = int(duration.split(':')[1])
new_time = given_time   timedelta(hours=duration_hours,minutes=duration_minutes)'