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How do I convert date/time from 24-hour format to 12-hour AM/PM?

From a data feed I'm getting date and time in this format:

19:24:15 06/13/2013

I need to have it converted to be in 12-hour AM/PM without the seconds. So the above time would be 7:24 PM. The date should remain in mm/dd/yyyy format. Is there an elegant way to do this in PHP (not MySQL)? Thanks!

Solution

  • I think you can use date() function to achive this

    $date = '19:24:15 06/13/2013'; 
echo date('h:i:s a m/d/Y', strtotime($date));

    This will output

    07:24:15 pm 06/13/2013

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    h is used for 12 digit time
    i stands for minutes
    s seconds
    a will return am or pm (use in uppercase for AM PM)
    m is used for months with digits
    d is used for days in digit
    Y uppercase is used for 4 digit year (use it lowercase for two digit)

    Updated

    This is with DateTime

    $date = new DateTime('19:24:15 06/13/2013');
echo $date->format('h:i:s a m/d/Y') ;

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