title: Display time format as (MM/DD/YYYY - HH:MM AM/PM) - Django/Python
body: <p>Under the "send_mail" function, I would like to change the "start" variable to display the date/time as MM/DD/YYYY - HH:MM AM/PM in the email. Does someone know how to do this?</p>
  
  <p>Thank you in advance!    </p>
  
  <pre><code>date = coerce_date_dict(request.GET)
  initial_data = None
  if date:
      try:
          start = datetime.datetime(**date)
          initial_data = {
              "start": start,
              "end": start + datetime.timedelta(minutes=60)
          }
      except TypeError:
          raise Http404
      except ValueError:
          raise Http404
  
  instance = None
  if event_id is not None:
      instance = get_object_or_404(Event, id=event_id)
  
  calendar = get_object_or_404(Calendar, slug=calendar_slug)
  
  form = form_class(data=request.POST or None, instance=instance, initial=initial_data)
  
  if form.is_valid():
      event = form.save(commit=False)
      if instance is None:
          event.creator = request.user
          event.calendar = calendar
          try:
              send_mail('New Lesson', '%s has scheduled a new lesson for %s' %(request.user.full_name, start), 'example@gmail.com', ['example@gmail.com'])
          except:
              pass
      event.save()
      next = next or reverse('event', args=[event.id])
      next = get_next_url(request, next)
      return HttpResponseRedirect(next)
  </code></pre>