Parse a string to a Time according to a format specification. See time.strptime documentation for format specification.

>>> Time.strptime('2012-Jun-30 23:59:60', '%Y-%b-%d %H:%M:%S')
<Time object: scale='utc' format='isot' value=2012-06-30T23:59:60.000>

Parameters¶

time_stringstr, sequence, or ndarray

Objects containing time data of type string

format_stringstr

String specifying format of time_string.

kwargsdict

Any keyword arguments for Time. If the format keyword argument is present, this will be used as the Time format.

Returns¶

time_obj~astropy.time.Time

A new ~astropy.time.Time object corresponding to the input time_string.