What is the best way to get the AM/PM value from a DateTime?

Problem

Here’s the code in question:

public static string ChangePersianDate(DateTime dateTime)
{
    System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar PC = new System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar();
    PC.CalendarType = System.Globalization.GregorianCalendarTypes.USEnglish;
    return
    PC.GetYear(dateTime).ToString()
    + "/"
    + PC.GetMonth(dateTime).ToString()
    + "/"
    + PC.GetDayOfMonth(dateTime).ToString()
    + ""
    + PC.GetHour(dateTime).ToString()
    + ":"
    + PC.GetMinute(dateTime).ToString()
    + ":"
    + PC.GetSecond(dateTime).ToString()
    + " "
    ????????????????
}

What is the best way to extract the AM/PM from a dateTime value?

Asked by SilverLight

Solution #1

How about:

dateTime.ToString("tt", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

Answered by Andy

Solution #2

string.Format("{0:hh:mm:ss tt}", DateTime.Now)

This should give you the time’s string value. The am/pm should be appended by tt.

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Answered by XikiryoX

Solution #3

Internally, the DateTime should always use the “American” (Gregorian) calendar. As a result, if you do

var str = dateTime.ToString(@"yyyy/MM/dd hh:mm:ss tt", new CultureInfo("en-US"));

You should be able to get what you want in a lot less lines.

Answered by xanatos

Solution #4

Using the string format makes it very straightforward.

on .ToString(“”) :

Converting from 23:12 to 11:12 p.m., for example:

DateTime d = new DateTime(1, 1, 1, 23, 12, 0);
var res = d.ToString("hh:mm tt");   // this show  11:12 Pm
var res2 = d.ToString("HH:mm");  // this show  23:12

Console.WriteLine(res);
Console.WriteLine(res2);

Console.Read();

pause for a moment That is not all; you must also consider the system culture, because the same code executed on Windows with different languages, particularly with different cultures, may produce different results.

The following is an example of a window set to the Arabic language culture:

// 23:12 م

‘Evening’ is the initial letter of the word ‘evening’.

It will show / 23:12 du on another system, depending on what is specified on the windows regional and language options.

On the Windows Control Panel, go to Windows Regional and Language -> Current Format (combobox) and adjust… Apply that, rebuild (run) your program, and pay attention to what I’m saying.

simple as adding two lines: ->

The first step is to include System. On top of your code, there’s globalisation.

as well as changing the previous code to look like this:

DateTime d = new DateTime(1, 1, 1, 23, 12, 0);
var res = d.ToString("HH:mm tt", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture); // this show  11:12 Pm

Default English Format is used by InvariantCulture.

a different query Even if I use windows configured to English (or other language) regional format, I want the pm to be in Arabic or a certain language.

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DateTime d = new DateTime(1, 1, 1, 23, 12, 0);
var res = d.ToString("HH:mm tt", CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("ar-AE")); 

This will be shown / 23:12

event If my system’s region format is set to English. If you want to use a different language format, change “ar-AE.” Each language is listed along with its format.

exemples :

ar          ar-SA       Arabic
ar-BH       ar-BH       Arabic (Bahrain)
ar-DZ       ar-DZ       Arabic (Algeria)
ar-EG       ar-EG       Arabic (Egypt)

big list...

Please let me know if you have any other questions.

Answered by Bilal

Solution #5

Although this may appear to be terribly late, it may be of use to someone out there.

I needed the AM/PM portion of the date, so I followed Andy’s advice:

dateTime.ToString("tt");

I utilized that section to create a Path where I could save my stuff. I constructed my assumptions around the fact that I’ll only get AM or PM and nothing else!!

When I used a PC with a culture other than English (in my case, ARABIC), however, my application failed since the format “tt” returned something different than AM or PM (or).

So the solution was to ignore the culture by adding the following second argument:

dateTime.ToString("tt", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

Of course, you must include: using System.Globalization; at the top of your code. I hope this information is useful:)

Answered by searchingSO

Post is based on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7875259/how-do-i-get-the-am-pm-value-from-a-datetime