# Time select with am/pm?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/time-select-with-am-pm/60969>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 18, 2006, 11:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/time-select-with-am-pm/60969 "2006-05-18T23:02:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![agnathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@agnathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/agnathan)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 11:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/time-select-with-am-pm/60969/1 "2006-05-18T23:02:43Z")

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Hi everyone,

Is there a time select helper which uses a 12 hour clock rather than a  
24  
hour one? Also, does anyone know if :discard\_year actually works in  
datetime\_select now, or how I could find this out?

Thanks!  
Daniel

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**Author:** ![agnathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@agnathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/agnathan)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2006, 4:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/time-select-with-am-pm/60969/2 "2006-05-20T04:27:48Z")

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I’d like to see an AM/PM select as well…this 24h clock is lame.

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**Author:** ![agnathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@agnathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/agnathan)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2006, 8:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/time-select-with-am-pm/60969/3 "2006-05-21T20:19:44Z")

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subimage interactive \<subimage@…\> writes:

> I’d like to see an AM/PM select as well…this 24h clock is lame.
> 
> On 5/18/06, Daniel H.  
> \<removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid
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> > wrote:Hi everyone,Is there a time select helper which  
> > uses a 12 hour clock rather than a 24  
> > hour one? […]

Third…ed. I’m surprised this is not part of ActionView’s  
basic functionality.

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**Author:** ![agnathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@agnathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/agnathan)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2006, 11:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/time-select-with-am-pm/60969/4 "2006-05-21T23:15:05Z")

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Yes, I was dealing with and asking these same questions a few weeks ago.  
I’ve found an excellent solution from a plugin called flex\_times. I  
guess the name fits as it is very flexible with date and time selectors.  
I finally got my 12 hour time selectors to play nicely with my time  
column type in MySQL. Check it out:

[http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/FlexTimes+Plugin](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/FlexTimes+Plugin)

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**Author:** ![agnathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@agnathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/agnathan)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 3:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/time-select-with-am-pm/60969/5 "2006-05-22T03:29:42Z")

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Sweet, thanks!