Help needed with time templating

[ih8gates (Scott Reston)]

I think you want strptime. That creates a datetime from a string.

{% set time = "12:45" %}
{{ strptime(time, "%H%M") }}

Using the template dev tool is a great way to experiment and test.

Do a forum search for strptime and you’ll see some examples. But I ran into issues getting it to work, so did some splitting of strings…

Templating - How to cut up attributes string

I couldn’t get strptime to work for me, either. This is hacky, but you could use {{states.calendar.work.attributes.start_time.split(’ ')[1]}} That’s “split on spaces” to get a list, and then take 1 (zero based lists). Templating is based on Jinja. Also, use the template dev tool (button at bottom of HASS sidebar) to debug templates.