Time Format Conversions

[Alpha Blue]

Hi all,

So, I'm trying to find out the best practice for converting a time
format from the following:

"3:00 PM"
"10:00 PM"
"1:00 AM"

TO:

"15:00:00"
"22:00:00"
"01:00:00"

Can anyone help me out on what I need to do here? I'm pulling strings
that need to be parsed and converted from > to the listings above.

Any help would be appreciated.

Many thanks in advance.

JD

 

[s.ross]

gem install chronic

Chronic.parse("3:00 PM").strftime('%H:%M:%S')
=> "15:00:00"

Does this work?

 

[s.ross]

Oops.

$ gem install chronic
$ irb

require 'chronic'
Chronic.parse("3:00 PM").strftime('%H:%M:%S')

=> "15:00:00"

 

[Siep Korteling]

Oops.

$ gem install chronic
$ irb
=> "15:00:00"

The standard library 'time' parses this too:

require 'time'
puts Time.parse("3:00 PM").strftime('%H:%M:%S')
=> 15:00:00

hth,

Siep

 

[Alpha Blue]

Thanks again fellas.