Looking for a time function....

Hello everyone, looking for a function to use to display time properly. I have multiple times stored as "$time" in the format of XXXX. Its always a 4 digit number in military time from 0001 to 2400. Is there a function to display these time properly in the format of 11:45pm instead of 1145?

I could go the totally newb way and use a huge amount of if statements for the times I need (IF $time = 0600 then $newtime = 6:00am) but I swear there is a function I am overlooking....

Any ideas?

 

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you could always just set $hour to the first two, $minute to the last two, then if $hour > 12, $hour - 12 and set $ante = 'pm';

 

Try this. Just wrote this, might have errors, but you'll get the idea.

 

It works, but made a couple of changes.. if the time is in 24 hr format, and you're then converting it to have am/pm on the end.. you want it in 12 hours format

function convert_time($time)
{
        //for example, $time = "0600";
        $a = substr($time, 0, 2);
        $b = substr($time, 2, 4);

        $am_or_pm = (int)$a >= 12 ? "pm" : "am";

        if ($a> 12) $a-=12;

        $new_time = sprintf("%02d:%02d%s",$a,$b, $am_or_pm);

        return $new_time;
}

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great! glad i could be of help.