Hi, I have a date string: “1970-01-01 05:15:00” How can I convert this to “05:15:00” Why can’t I create this value_template: {{ strptime('1970-01-01 05:15:00', "%H:%M:%S") }} to get “05:15:00” ? BR/Nicklas

When using strptime you need to use a format string that matches the input. In this case your format string matches the time part, but not the date part. Note that strptime takes a string and converts it to a Python datetime object, so the format string tells it how to interpret the string, not how …

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finity August 16, 2019, 11:35pm 5

The EPIC Time Conversion and Manipulation Thread! Configuration

After seeing many threads on the forum asking for help with time conversions and calculations using time and realizing I generally had no real understanding of how time worked in HA I decided to dig in and try to figure it out. After over a week of internet and forum searches I think I’ve now got a lot of it figured out. I’m sure there is more that I don’t have here because sometimes “you don’t know what you don’t know”. So, since I didn’t know this stuff and because of the number of other pos…

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