PHP date

[howie2009]

Hi Guys,
PHP will typically output time using

 %g:%i%a

as 8:00pm. How do I get time to be outputted as 8 p.m if there are no minutes with a dot between p and m. Same for am.
Any ideas?
Thanks

[Keleth]

The PHP date has function function doesn't have anything to put a dot between the letters. You'll have to do a conditional to check if date('a') == 'am', and if so, echo 'a.m', and if not, echo 'p.m'.

[Fou-Lu]

I'm not sure what you're parsing. Date doesn't use %'s within its format and shows literally, while strftime doesn't use g:i:a to indicate its hour minute and am/pm representative. That would be %I:%M:%P.
There is no way to add the . between the a and m. That requires manual insertion instead:

PHP Code:

if (strftime('%p', $iTime) == 'AM')
{
    $sTime = strftime('%I:%M a.m', $iTime);
}
else
{
    $sTime = strftime('%I:%M p.m', $iTime);
}

print $sTime;