How do I use toLocaleTimeString without displaying seconds

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I m currently attempting to display the user s time without displaying the seconds  Is there a way I can do this using Javascript s  toLocaleTimeString     Doing something like this   var date   new Date    var string   date toLocaleTimeString      will display the user s time with every unit  e g  currently it displays 3 39 15 PM  Am I able to display that same string  just without the seconds   e g  3 39 PM

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Here s a function that will do it  with comments that explain     function displayNiceTime date          getHours returns the hours in local time zone from 0 to 23     var hours   date getHours          getMinutes returns the minutes in local time zone from 0 to 59     var minutes    date getMinutes       var meridiem     AM          convert to 12-hour time format     if  hours  gt  12          hours   hours - 12       meridiem     PM            else if  hours     0         hours   12               minutes should always be two digits long     if  minutes  lt  10          minutes    0    minutes toString             return hours         minutes   meridiem       Since  as others have noted  toLocaleTimeString   can be implemented differently in different browsers  this way gives better control    To learn more about the Javascript Date object  this is a good resource  https   developer mozilla org en-US docs Web JavaScript Reference Global Objects Date

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I ve also been looking for solution to this problem  here s what I eventually came up with   function getTimeStr         var dt   new Date        var d   dt toLocaleDateString        var t   dt toLocaleTimeString        t   t replace   u200E g           t   t replace       d   d 1 2   d 1 2    d 1 2     d         1 2        var result   d         t      return result      You can try it here  http   jsfiddle net B5Zrx    u200E is some formatting character that I ve seen on some IE version  it s unicode left-to-right mark    I assume that if the formatted time contains something like  XX XX XX  then it must be time with seconds and I remove the last part  if I don t find this pattern  nothing is changed  Pretty safe  but there is a risk of leaving seconds in some weird circumstances   I just hope that there is no locale that would change the order of formatted time parts  e g  make it ss mm hh   This left-to-right mark is making me a bit nervous about that though  that is why I don t remove the right-to-left mark   u202E  - I prefer to not find a match in this case and leave the time formatted with seconds in such case

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I wanted it with date and the time but no seconds so I used this  var dateWithoutSecond   new Date    dateWithoutSecond toLocaleTimeString      year   numeric   month   numeric   day   numeric   hour   2-digit   minute   2-digit      It produced the following output  7 29 2020  2 46 PM Which was the exact thing I needed   Worked in FireFox

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Simply convert the date to a string  and then concatenate the substrings you want out of it   let time   date toLocaleTimeString    console log time substr 0  4    time substr 7  3       gt  5 45 PM

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I think the original question can easily be answered with something being overlooked so far  a simple string split  The time being returned is a text string  just split it on the     delimiter and reassemble the string the way you want  No plug ins  no complicated scripting  and here ya go   var myVar setInterval function   myTimer    1000    function myTimer         var d   new Date        currentNow   d toLocaleTimeString        nowArray   currentNow split           filteredNow   nowArray 0      nowArray 1       document getElementById  demo   innerHTML   filteredNow

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This works for me   var date   new Date    var string   date toLocaleTimeString      timeStyle   short

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With locales    var date   new Date    date toLocaleTimeString  fr-FR    hour   2-digit   minute   2-digit

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You can try this  which is working for my needs   var d   new Date    d toLocaleTimeString   replace    d 2  s          or  d toLocaleString   replace    d 2  s

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You can always set the options  based on this page you can set  to get rid of the seconds  something like this  var dateWithouthSecond   new Date    dateWithouthSecond toLocaleTimeString      hour   2-digit   minute  2-digit       Supported by Firefox  Chrome  IE9  and Opera  Try it on your web browser console

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The value returned by Date prototype toLocaleString is implementation dependent  so you get what you get  You can try to parse the string to remove seconds  but it may be different in different browsers so you d need to make allowance for every browser in use   Creating your own  unambiguous format isn t difficult using Date methods  For example   function formatTimeHHMMA d      function z n  return  n lt 10  0      n    var h   d getHours      return  h 12    12          z d getMinutes             h lt 12   AM    PM

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Even though this is an older question  I had the same one myself recently  and came up with a more simple solution using regular expressions and the string replace function as another alternative  no need for external js libraries or reliance on the ECMAScript Internalization API    var d   new Date    var localeTime   d toLocaleTimeString    var localeTimeSansSeconds   localeTime replace     d 2       AP M            This approach uses a regex look-ahead to grab the  ss AM PM end of the string and replaces the  ss part with a space  returning the rest of the string untouched   Literally says  Find a colon with two digits and a space that is followed by either AM or PM and replace the colon  two digits  and space portion with just a space     This expression approach only works for en-US and en-US-like Locales  If you also wanted a similar outcome with  say  British English  en-GB   which doesn t use AM PM  a different regular expression is needed   Based on the original questioner s sample output  I assume that they were primarily dealing with American audiences and the en-US time schema

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