Re: [PHP] strftime silliness
On 11 Apr 2012 at 01:47, Geoff Shang ge...@quitelikely.com wrote: On Wed, 10 Apr 2012, Tim Streater wrote: I want to format a date/time using a 12 hour representation of the time part. I can do this with, say, %d %b %Y %l:%M %p, where the first time format specifier is the lower-case L. But, this gives me a leading space in the case that the hour is less than 12. I don't want this space. Anyone know of an simple way to avoid it? There appears to be no specifier to do this. Of course, I can call strftime twice, once for the date portion and once for the time portion, trimming the latter, but that seems clumsy. You can use %-l to achieve this. You could also use %-I as this will also drop leading zeros if present. I forget where I read about this. I'm almost certain that it was *not* in any PHP documentation. Ah - thanks. My post wasn't a complete waste of time after all then. I ended up using date(). But is %-l officially supported? -- Cheers -- Tim -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] strftime silliness
I want to format a date/time using a 12 hour representation of the time part. I can do this with, say, %d %b %Y %l:%M %p, where the first time format specifier is the lower-case L. But, this gives me a leading space in the case that the hour is less than 12. I don't want this space. Anyone know of an simple way to avoid it? There appears to be no specifier to do this. Of course, I can call strftime twice, once for the date portion and once for the time portion, trimming the latter, but that seems clumsy. -- Cheers -- Tim -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] strftime silliness
On Wed, 10 Apr 2012, Tim Streater wrote: I want to format a date/time using a 12 hour representation of the time part. I can do this with, say, %d %b %Y %l:%M %p, where the first time format specifier is the lower-case L. But, this gives me a leading space in the case that the hour is less than 12. I don't want this space. Anyone know of an simple way to avoid it? There appears to be no specifier to do this. Of course, I can call strftime twice, once for the date portion and once for the time portion, trimming the latter, but that seems clumsy. You can use %-l to achieve this. You could also use %-I as this will also drop leading zeros if present. I forget where I read about this. I'm almost certain that it was *not* in any PHP documentation. HTH, Geoff. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] strftime
Hi All, I'm using the next code: ? setlocale(LC_TIME,he);//returns Hebrew_Israel.1255 echo strftime(%A);//I see only question marks: ??? ? ? The browser encoding is set on Windows-1255.. what's the problem? -thanks, Lorderon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] strftime()
Okay here is what I am trying strftime(%A, %B %e, %Y %H:%M:%S, $last); I have looked now at the manual and stared in amazement but it seems not to recognize %e at all. What i get is this Wednesday, May , 2001 12:44:08 Am i doing soemthing wrong?? %d works.
