# Format for getting time to display as 8:30 PM not 08:30 PM? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [November 27, 2007, 3:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/format-for-getting-time-to-display-as-8-30-pm-not-08-30-pm/121386 "2007-11-27T15:04:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sharon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@sharon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sharon)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 3:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/format-for-getting-time-to-display-as-8-30-pm-not-08-30-pm/121386/1 "2007-11-27T15:04:55Z")
Is there a strftime format I’m missing that would get a time to display as 8:30 PM instead of 08:30 PM? Using @mytime.strftime(" %I:%M %p") gives me a display like 08:30 PM, but I’d like it to show as h:mm and not hh:mm for times earlier than 10:00. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![sharon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@sharon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sharon)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 9:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/format-for-getting-time-to-display-as-8-30-pm-not-08-30-pm/121386/2 "2007-11-27T21:25:46Z")
Sharon M. wrote: > Is there a strftime format I’m missing that would get a time to > display as 8:30 PM instead of 08:30 PM? Using @mytime.strftime(" %I:%M > %p") gives me a display like 08:30 PM, but I’d like it to show as h:mm > and not hh:mm for times earlier than 10:00. Thanks. Funnily enough, my colleague just blogged about this… [http://infovore.org/archives/2007/11/27/displaying-the-number-of-hours-without-a-leading-zero-in-rubys-strftime/](http://infovore.org/archives/2007/11/27/displaying-the-number-of-hours-without-a-leading-zero-in-rubys-strftime/) ---
**Author:** ![sharon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@sharon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sharon)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 9:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/format-for-getting-time-to-display-as-8-30-pm-not-08-30-pm/121386/3 "2007-11-27T21:30:24Z")
On Nov 27, 2007 2:25 PM, Tom T. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Funnily enough, my colleague just blogged about this… > > [Infovore » Displaying the number of hours without a leading zero in Ruby’s #strftime](http://infovore.org/archives/2007/11/27/displaying-the-number-of-hours-without-a-leading-zero-in-rubys-strftime/) I guess it’s fairly popular: WordPress Error establishing a database connection – Greg D. [http://destiney.com/](http://destiney.com/) ---
**Author:** ![sharon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@sharon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sharon)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 9:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/format-for-getting-time-to-display-as-8-30-pm-not-08-30-pm/121386/4 "2007-11-27T21:49:02Z")
Sharon M. wrote: > Is there a strftime format I’m missing that would get a time to > display as 8:30 PM instead of 08:30 PM? Using @mytime.strftime(" %I:%M > %p") gives me a display like 08:30 PM, but I’d like it to show as h:mm > and not hh:mm for times earlier than 10:00. Thanks. Well I’m not using strftime and it is a little long winded but I do have code that does what you ask: \<%= Time.now.hour \< 10 ? Time.now.hour + ’ AM’ : Time.now.hour.to\_i \> 12 ? (Time.now.hour.to\_i - 12).to\_s + ’ PM’ : Time.now.hour + ’ PM’ %\> Hope this helps, -S ---
**Author:** ![sharon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@sharon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sharon)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 10:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/format-for-getting-time-to-display-as-8-30-pm-not-08-30-pm/121386/5 "2007-11-27T22:10:23Z")
On Nov 27, 2007 9:03 AM, Sharon M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Is there a strftime format I’m missing that would get a time to > display as 8:30 PM instead of 08:30 PM? Using @mytime.strftime(" %I:%M > %p") gives me a display like 08:30 PM, but I’d like it to show as h:mm > and not hh:mm for times earlier than 10:00. Thanks. Time#strftime uses the platform function with the same name, this might be platform dependent but on both OSX and Ubuntu linux, @mytime.strftime(“%l:%M %p”) #=\> " 8:30 pm" Note that that first format character is a lowercase L not an uppercase I. Also lowercase k will do the same thing but use military time. Note that this suppresses the leading zero, but does put a blank in it’s place. If you really want to get write of the leading blank, just do: @mytime.strftime(“%l:%M %p”).strip – Rick DeNatale My blog on Ruby [http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/](http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/) ---
**Author:** ![sharon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@sharon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sharon)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 10:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/format-for-getting-time-to-display-as-8-30-pm-not-08-30-pm/121386/6 "2007-11-27T22:16:14Z")
Rick DeNatale wrote: > Note that that first format character is a lowercase L not an uppercase I. You can do: @mytime.strftime("%I:%M %p").sub(/^0/,’’) This should work on all platforms I think. Cheers, Gary. ---
**Author:** ![sharon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@sharon](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sharon)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2007, 3:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/format-for-getting-time-to-display-as-8-30-pm-not-08-30-pm/121386/7 "2007-12-23T03:09:17Z")
That works on the Windows system I’m developing on as well as my Linux host. Thanks! @mytime.strftime("%I:%M %p") alone didn’t show the hour at all on a Windows system.