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Convert hour to PM and AM with Carbon

I have a timestamp in PHP, so I'm using Carbon extension to manage everything that is related with date, time,etc. Now I have for example a hour 23:00 or 20:00 with this extension how I can convert that to AM and PM format?

Solution

  • I'm not sure if there is a out-of-the-box helper method for this, but you could always use the format method, which defers to the base class method DateTime::format().

    Example:

    $now = Carbon::now();
echo $now->format('g:i A');

    This will echo out something like 5:17 PM.

    The g, i, and A can seem random, but the list of parameters can be found here: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

    g: 12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros

    i: Minutes with leading zeros

    A: Uppercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem