I've been wishing I had a tool that could take an arbitrary date/datetime string and spit out the strptime/strftime format string needed to parse it.

Last week I decided to make such a tool and added a couple additional features that I hadn't realized I wanted until I was making it.

The tool to bookmark is at pym.dev/strptime 🔖

Details on how it works here 👇
treyhunner.com/2024/08/find-th…

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Quickly find the right datetime format code for your date

I often find myself with a string representing a date and time and the need to create a format string that will parse this string into a datetime …

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