set new sattime from date string code example

Example 1: convert into date python

date_str = '09-19-2018'

date_object = datetime.strptime(date_str, '%m-%d-%Y').date()
print(type(date_object))
print(date_object)  # printed in default formatting

Example 2: python string to datetime

from datetime import datetime

datetime_object = datetime.strptime('Jun 1 2005  1:33PM', '%b %d %Y %I:%M%p')