How to remove seconds from datetime?

Question

I have the following date and I tried the following code,

df[\'start_date_time\'] = [\"2016-05-19 08:25:00\",\"2016-05-19 16:00:00\",\"2016-05-20 07:45:00\",\"20         


        

Answer 1

Here is a very simple way to remove seconds from datetime:

from datetime import datetime 
print(str(datetime.today())[:16])

Output:

2021-02-14 21:30

It effectively transforms the timestamp into text and leaves only the first 16 symbols. Just don't lose yourself in all those brackets ;)