Date format conversion from yyyy-mm-dd to dd:mm:yyyy

Question

How to convert date in Python from 2021-01-11 as YYYY-MM-DD to dd:mm:yyyy like 11:01:2021?

Does this answer your question? [Python: How to convert datetime format?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6288892/python-how-to-convert-datetime-format) — FObersteiner, Jan 11 '21 at 06:33

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 11 '21 at 05:15

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You can do that in a very simple way with datetime:

import datetime

original_date = datetime.datetime.strptime("2021-01-11", '%Y-%m-%d')
formatted_date = original_date.strftime("%d:%m:%Y")

answered Jan 11 '21 at 05:15

Marc Dillar

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 11 '21 at 05:06

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You can easily change strings to dates and back to string in any format thanks to datetime package.

from datetime import datetime
datetime.strptime("2021-01-11", "%Y-%m-%d").strftime("%d:%m:%Y")

## Output
'11:01:2021'

answered Jan 11 '21 at 05:06

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 11 '21 at 05:05

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date = "2021-01-11"

lst_date = date.split("-")

new_date = lst_date[2]+":"+lst_date[1]+":"+lst_date[0]

Output:

11:01:2021

answered Jan 11 '21 at 05:05

Synthase

An approach involving strptime/strftime should be preferred since it also validates the input. – FObersteiner Jan 11 '21 at 06:34

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