title: about datetime.strptime()
body: <p>I am fairly new with datetime in python, and I am using Python 2.7.3</p>
  
  <p>In the python console:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt;import datetime
  &gt;&gt;&gt;datetime.datetime.strptime("2012-3-12 10:10:10", "%Y-%m-%j %H:%M:%S")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>why the result is following?</p>
  
  <pre><code>datetime.datetime(2012, 1, 12, 10, 10, 10)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Rather than</p>
  
  <pre><code>datetime.datetime(2012, 3, 12, 10, 10, 10)
  </code></pre>