# AM/PM select **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 8, 2006, 10:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/am-pm-select/95657 "2006-06-08T10:07:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![seanwarburton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@seanwarburton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/seanwarburton)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 10:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/am-pm-select/95657/1 "2006-06-08T10:07:01Z")
I have a customer that has a request that the select\_datetime fields have AM/PM selectors instead of 24 hour time. The rails time and datetime selects seem to only support 24 hour time. I can’t seem to find any information on this. i was wondering if there is already a solution out there, or will i have to roll my own? Sean W. master nerd of i heart squares, inc. 3711 N. Ravenswood Ave. #147 Chicago, IL 60613 [http://www.iheartsquares.com](http://www.iheartsquares.com) ---
**Author:** ![seanwarburton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@seanwarburton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/seanwarburton)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 11:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/am-pm-select/95657/2 "2006-06-08T11:03:08Z")
Sean W. wrote: > I have a customer that has a request that the select\_datetime fields > have AM/PM selectors instead of 24 hour time. > The rails time and datetime selects seem to only support 24 hour time. > I can’t seem to find any information on this. i was wondering if > there is already a solution out there, or will i have to roll my own? > > Sean W. > master nerd of > i heart squares, inc. > > 3711 N. Ravenswood Ave. #147 Chicago, IL 60613 > [http://www.iheartsquares.com](http://www.iheartsquares.com) there is already solution out there… and dont need much coding also… cos this is only a formatting question… using the strftime method would solve the trick! options to use are just like the usual sql commands… eg. my\_date.strftime(“%Y-%m-%d–%H:%M”) will generate 2006-06-09–17:30 my\_date.strftime(“%Y-%m-%d–%I:%M%p”) will generate 2006-06-09–5:30PM hope this helps! ---
**Author:** ![seanwarburton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@seanwarburton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/seanwarburton)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 12:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/am-pm-select/95657/3 "2006-06-08T12:44:17Z")
that’s all fine if it’s just the var my\_date you’re trying to format, but how would you go about modifying the datetime\_select tag? \<%= datetime\_select ‘bug’, ‘added\_at’ %\> I can’t get it to work with .strftime in there… ---
**Author:** ![seanwarburton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@seanwarburton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/seanwarburton)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 1:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/am-pm-select/95657/4 "2006-06-08T13:43:29Z")
On 6/8/06, Sean W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I have a customer that has a request that the select\_datetime fields have > AM/PM selectors instead of 24 hour time. Here’s a solution I whipped up for a project a while back. Might not be the best solution, but it did the trick. [http://www.atlrug.org/atlrug/show/12HourHelper](http://www.atlrug.org/atlrug/show/12HourHelper) -eric ---
**Author:** ![seanwarburton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@seanwarburton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/seanwarburton)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 10:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/am-pm-select/95657/5 "2006-06-08T22:35:59Z")
Eric W. wrote: > On 6/8/06, Sean W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > I have a customer that has a request that the select\_datetime fields have > > AM/PM selectors instead of 24 hour time. > > Here’s a solution I whipped up for a project a while back. Might not > be the best solution, but it did the trick. > > [http://www.atlrug.org/atlrug/show/12HourHelper](http://www.atlrug.org/atlrug/show/12HourHelper) Ahhh! Fantastic. And this is a lot better than i was expecting. Nice solution to put it all into a single Drop. I thought about it being a mess to have AM/PM selector on the side. I’ve posted this link into my [del.icio.us](http://del.icio.us) ---
**Author:** ![seanwarburton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@seanwarburton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/seanwarburton)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 10:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/am-pm-select/95657/6 "2006-06-08T22:44:41Z")
I also made something similar, with an am/pm dropdown and model support: [http://www.happyfreelancer.com/?p=10](http://www.happyfreelancer.com/?p=10) This is also supposed to be very good: [http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/FlexTimes+Plugin](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/FlexTimes+Plugin) Hope this helps!