Rails - Nov 2007 - Format for getting time to display as 8:30 PM not 08:30 PM?

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.

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Sharon Machlis 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/
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On Nov 27, 2007 2:25 PM, Tom Taylor
<rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> 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/
I guess it''s fairly popular:

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Sharon Machlis 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

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On Nov 27, 2007 9:03 AM, Sharon Machlis
<smachlis-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
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



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Rick DeNatale wrote:
> On Nov 27, 2007 9:03 AM, Sharon Machlis
<smachlis-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> 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.
> 
You can do:

@mytime.strftime("%I:%M %p").sub(/^0/,'''')

This should work on all platforms I think.

Cheers,
Gary.


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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.

On Nov 27, 4:15 pm, Gary Doades
<g...-UVRRe/+0hzLQXOPxS62xeg@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> You can do:
>
> @mytime.strftime("%I:%M %p").sub(/^0/,'''')
>
> This should work on all platforms I think.
>
> Cheers,
> Gary.
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