Why is Python's datetime difference returning the the wrong value?

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I've been using the datetime module to create datetime objects from two input strings.

I'm trying to simply calculate the time difference between 1:00 PM and 10:00 AM, which should be 3 hours, not 15 hours, as I'm getting below.

What am I doing wrong?

In [29]: time1 = datetime.datetime.strptime('10:00AM', '%H:%M%p')

In [30]: time2 = datetime.datetime.strptime('1:00PM', '%H:%M%p')

In [31]: print time2 - time1
-1 day, 15:00:00

Thank You

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Why is Python's datetime difference returning the the wrong value?