But the strftime() function is supposed to work with whatever format I give it, isn't it? According to the documentation, %d is a two-digit day, %m is a two-digit month, and so on. Is there truly no way to convert my original string into a datetime object?
RobR -----Original Message----- From: sqlite-users [mailto:sqlite-users-boun...@mailinglists.sqlite.org] On Behalf Of Richard Hipp Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2017 2:28 PM To: SQLite mailing list Subject: Re: [sqlite] Why isn't my time formatting working? On 3/8/17, Rob Richardson <rdrichard...@rad-con.com> wrote: > Hello! > > I have a table with times stored as strings. I massaged them into a > form that strftime() should be able to work with, but it's not > working. Here's a little query using the string as it is currently formatted: > > select strftime('%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S', '03/07/2017 13:06:03') SQLite uses ISO-8601 dates: YYYY-MM-DD -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users