Convert time to am pm php

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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!

asked Jun 13, 2013 at 22:20

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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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answered Jun 13, 2013 at 22:24

FabioFabio

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You can use date function to format it by using the code below:

echo date("g:i a", strtotime("13:30:30 UTC"));

output: 1:30 pm

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answered Apr 5, 2018 at 10:33

AowalAowal

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Use smaller h

// 24 hrs 
H:i 
// output 14:20

// 12 hrs 
h:i 
// output 2:20

answered Jul 25, 2018 at 9:46

DexterDexter

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This is a PHP tutorial on how to convert a standard 24 hour date and time into a 12 hour time. Furthermore, I will also show you how to add the AM and PM period abbreviations.

Take the following example:

//Example Y-m-d H:i:s date string.
$date = '2019-02-15 16:56:01';

//12 hour format with uppercase AM/PM
echo date("g:iA", strtotime($date));

In the code above, we converted a standard datetime string into a 12 hour time with an uppercase AM/PM abbreviation. We did this by using PHP’s inbuilt date and strtotime functions. The character “g” tells the date function that we want a 12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros. The uppercase “A” character is for AM / PM.

But what if you want a lowercase am / pm abbreviation?

//Example Y-m-d H:i:s date string.
$date = '2019-02-15 16:56:01';

//12 hour format with lowercase AM/PM
echo date("g:ia", strtotime($date));

As you can see, it’s pretty much the same as the first example. The only difference is that we used a lowercase a instead of an uppercase A in the format parameter.

Note that we removed the time in seconds from both examples as seconds are usually not typically displayed in this format.

Using the DateTime object.

If you prefer using PHP’s DateTime object, then you can use the following code:

//Create a DateTime object using the original
//datetime string.
$date = new DateTime('2019-02-15 16:56:01');

//Convert it into the 12 hour time using the format method.
echo $date->format('g:ia') ;

The above piece of code will print out: 4:56pm

Leading zeros.

If you do want to display leading zeros in your time format, then you should use the character h instead of g.

An example:

//Create a DateTime object using the original
//datetime string.
$date = new DateTime('2019-01-14 09:12:10');

//Print out the 12 hour time using the format method.
echo $date->format('h:ia') ;

If you run the PHP code above, you should see that it prints out: 09:12am

That’s pretty much all there is to it! Hopefully, this guide solved your problem!

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