PHP time format, am and pm with periods

Question

How could I adjust the php time format to a.m and p.m with the periods included?

date(\'h:i a\');

Answer 1

This is not something that is built-in to PHP. You'll have to do it manually.

It has been an open request for almost four years now.

Answer 2

There's no straightforward way.

What I'd do is fetch date("a"), see whether it's am or pm, and then output a.m or p.m accordingly.

Answer 3

You do it easy with str_replace:

str_replace(array('am','pm'),array('a.m','p.m'),date('h:i a'));

Hope this helps

Answer 4

Just use str_replace to replace am with a.m. and pm with p.m.