On 2015-06-03 15:13, Mark Lawrence wrote: > 'f' for format, 'p' for parse, having originally come from plain old > C. More here > https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-behavior So I was wrong about the 'f' as well as having no clue about the 'p'! Thank you very much for clearing that up for me. cheers, Alex