在PHP范围内转换12到24小时的时间

Question

I'm getting a time range like this from a field in WordPress:

8 am - 5 pm

More than anything I just want to make sure that I'm thinking about the correctly.

I'm assuming that if I want to convert that time to 24 hour format, I'll need to strip out the dash - first and then convert each hour 8 am and 5 pm to be individual time numbers. So something like this?:

$newHours = explode('-',$hours);
$time_am  = date("H:i", strtotime($newHours[0]));
$time_pm  = date("H:i", strtotime($newHours[1]));

Wondering if there is a possible better way of going about that especially if I'm getting hours for multiple days as well.

Answer 1

You can try something like this:

// 24-hour time to 12-hour time

$time_in_12_hour_format = date("g:ia", strtotime("13:30"));

// 12-hour time to 24-hour time

$time_in_24_hour_format = date("H:i", strtotime("1:30 PM"));