Convert army time to regular time (AM/PM) in PHP

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Is there a way to convert army time (such as 23:00) to regular time with the AM/PM expression?

I think "Army time" is more popularly known as the "[24 hour clock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_clock)" `:-p` — halfer, Jun 10 '13 at 22:34
$time24 = '23:00'; $dt = new DateTime($time24); echo $dt->format('h:i A'); — Mark Baker, Jun 10 '13 at 22:37
@marabutt - I think you have to have a minimum of 1K rep here before you're allowed to swear at posters. — halfer, Jun 10 '13 at 22:39
Duplicate of: [How to convert the time from AM/PM to 24 hour format in PHP?](http://stackoverflow.com/q/16955209/55075) — kenorb, Nov 14 '15 at 00:22
try this from loop: echo date("g:i a", strtotime($result['hourOpeningHour'])) — Amranur Rahman, Dec 04 '17 at 13:10

score 20 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 06 '22 at 15:47

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Just pass your time to the strtotime function like this:

$time_in_12_hour_format = date("g:i a", strtotime("23:00"));
echo $time_in_12_hour_format;

edited Aug 06 '22 at 15:47

Peter Mortensen

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answered Jun 10 '13 at 22:55

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This is the one you're looking for my friends. – Henrik Petterson Apr 16 '17 at 14:04

score 8 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 06 '22 at 15:43

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Use date:

$army_time_str = "23:00";
$regular_time_str = date( 'g:i A', strtotime( $army_time_str ) );
echo $regular_time_str;

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Peter Mortensen

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answered Jun 10 '13 at 22:39

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great it works.. – Deepak Vaishnav Jul 21 '18 at 05:42

score 3 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 30 '22 at 02:55

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The input $time is in the form of 'XXXX' (e.g. '0000', '0001',...,'2300'). I couldn't find a function for this, so I wrote the following.

function convert_army_to_regular($time) {
    $hours = substr($time, 0, 2);
    $minutes = substr($time, 2, 2);

    if ($hours > 12) {
        $hours = $hours - 12;
        $ampm = 'PM';
    } else {
        if ($hours != 11) {
            $hours = substr($hours, 1, 1);
        }
        $ampm = 'AM';
    }
    return $hours . ':' . $minutes . $ampm;
}

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answered Jun 10 '13 at 22:31

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It's probably better to convert the time to a unix timestamp, and then render using `date` - which is very flexible. Still, +1. – halfer Jun 10 '13 at 22:37
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The obvious answer is to convert it to a unix timestamp or a DateTime object, and then use date() or the DateTime format() method... so much cleaner and easier – Mark Baker Jun 10 '13 at 22:38

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