get Total of dateTime

Question

How can I calculate the datetime for these strings:

1. offline_dt = "Jan 31 23:01:43"
2. offline_dt = "Feb 1 01:19:01" (there are 2 spaces between Feb and 1)

I tried this code, however I only the first one worked:

offline_dt = dt.datetime.strptime(offline,"%b %d %H:%M:%S")

Answer 1

You could convert double spaces into a single space before processing.

offline.replace("  ", " ")