How to extract hours and minutes from a datetime.datetime object?

Question

I am required to extract the time of the day from the datetime.datetime object returned by the created_at attribute. But I do not understand how to do that. This is my code

Answer 1

If the time is 11:03, then the accepted answer will print 11:3.

You could zero-pad the minutes:

"Created at {:d}:{:02d}".format(tdate.hour, tdate.minute)

Or go another way and use tdate.time() and only take the hour/minute part:

str(tdate.time())[0:5]

Answer 2

Don't know how you want to format it, but you can do:

print("Created at %s:%s" % (t1.hour, t1.minute))

for example.

Answer 3

It's easier to use the timestamp for this things since Tweepy gets both

import datetime
print(datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(int(t1)).strftime('%H:%M'))

Answer 4

datetime has fields hour and minute. So to get the hours and minutes, you would use t1.hour and t1.minute.

However, when you subtract two datetimes, the result is a timedelta, which only has the days and seconds fields. So you'll need to divide and multiply as necessary to get the numbers you need.