Convert time span value to format hh mm Am Pm using C

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I have a value stored in variable of type System TimeSpan as follows   System TimeSpan storedTime   03 00 00    Can I re-store it in another variable of type String as follows   String displayValue    03 00 AM     And if storedTime variable has the value of  storedTime   16 00 00    then it should be converted to   String displayValue    04 00 PM

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Parse timespan to DateTime  For Example        The time will be  8 30 AM  or  10 00 PM  or any time like this format      public TimeSpan GetTimeSpanValue string displayValue                            DateTime dateTime   DateTime Now                  if  displayValue StartsWith  10      displayValue StartsWith  11      displayValue StartsWith  12                              dateTime   DateTime ParseExact displayValue   hh mm tt   CultureInfo InvariantCulture                       else                           dateTime   DateTime ParseExact displayValue   h mm tt   CultureInfo InvariantCulture                       return dateTime TimeOfDay

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Parse timespan to DateTime and then use Format   hh mm tt    For example    TimeSpan ts   new TimeSpan 16  00  00   DateTime dtTemp   DateTime ParseExact ts ToString     HH mm ss   CultureInfo InvariantCulture   string str   dtTemp ToString  hh mm tt      str will be    str    04 00 PM

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Very simple by using the string format   on  ToSTring         if you use  hh  -   The hour  using a 12-hour clock from 01 to 12  if you use  HH  -   The hour  using a 24-hour clock from 00 to 23  if you add  tt  -   The Am Pm designator    exemple converting  from 23 12 to 11 12 Pm     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      wait a second that is not all you need to care about something else is the system Culture because the same code executed on windows with other langage  especialy with difrent culture langage will generate difrent result with the same code   exemple of windows set to Arabic langage culture will show like that        23 12       means Evening  first leter of          in another system culture depend on what is set on the windows regional and language option  it will show    23 12 du   you can change between different format on windows control panel under windows regional and language -  current format  combobox   and change    apply it do a rebuild  execute  of your app and watch what iam talking about   so who can I  force showing Am and Pm Words in English event if the culture of the current system isn t set to English    easy just by adding two lines   -   the first step  add using System Globalization  on top of your code  and modifing the Previous code to be 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   InvariantCulture    using default English Format   another question I want to have the pm to be in Arabic or specific language  even if I use windows set to English  or other language  regional format   Soution for Arabic Exemple    DateTime d   new DateTime 1  1  1  23  12  0   var res   d ToString  HH mm tt   CultureInfo CreateSpecificCulture  ar-AE        this will show    23 12     event if my system is set to an English region format  you can change  ar-AE  if you want to another language format  there is a list of each language and 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

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Doing some piggybacking off existing answers here   public static string ToShortTimeSafe this TimeSpan timeSpan        return new DateTime   Add timeSpan  ToShortTimeString        public static string ToShortTimeSafe this TimeSpan  timeSpan        return timeSpan    null   string Empty   timeSpan Value ToShortTimeSafe

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At first  you need to convert time span to DateTime structure   var dt   new DateTime 2000  12  1  timeSpan Hours  timeSpan Minutes  timeSpan Seconds    Then you need to convert the value to string with Short Time format  var result   dt ToString  t       Convert to string using Short Time format

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You can try this      string timeexample  string Format   0 hh mm ss tt    DateTime Now     you can remove hh or mm or ss or tt according your need where hh is hour in 12 hr formate  mm is minutes ss is seconds and tt is AM PM

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string displayValue  03 00 AM     This is a point in time   not a duration  TimeSpan    So something is wrong with your basic design or assumptions   If you do want to use it  you ll have to convert it to a DateTime  point in time  first  You can format a DateTime without the date part  that would be your desired string   TimeSpan t1        DateTime d1   DateTime Today   t1                   any date will do string result   d1 ToString  hh mm ss tt         storeTime variable can have value like        storeTime 16 00 00    No  it can have a value of 4 o clock but the representation is binary  a TimeSpan cannot record the difference between 16 00 and 4 pm

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You will need to get a DateTime object from your TimeSpan and then you can format it easily   One possible solution is adding the timespan to any date with zero time value   var timespan   new TimeSpan 3  0  0   var output   new DateTime   Add timespan  ToString  hh mm tt      The output value will be  03 00 AM   for english locale

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You can add the TimeSpan to a DateTime  for example   TimeSpan span   TimeSpan FromHours 16   DateTime time   DateTime Today   span  String result   time ToString  hh mm tt      Demo  http   ideone com veJ6tT  04 00 PM   Standard Date and Time Format Strings

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You can do this by adding your timespan to the date   TimeSpan timespan   new TimeSpan 03 00 00   DateTime time   DateTime Today Add timespan   string displayTime   time ToString  hh mm tt       It will give  03 00 AM

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You cannot add AM   PM to a TimeSpan  You ll anyway have to associate the TimaSpan value with DateTime if you want to display the time in 12-hour clock format   TimeSpan is not intended to use with a 12-hour clock format  because we are talking about a time interval here   As it says in the documentation      A TimeSpan object represents a time interval  duration of time or elapsed time  that is measured as a positive or negative number of days  hours  minutes  seconds  and fractions of a second  The TimeSpan structure can also be used to represent the time of day  but only if the time is unrelated to a particular date  Otherwise  the DateTime or DateTimeOffset structure should be used instead    Also Microsoft Docs describes as follows      A TimeSpan value can be represented as  - d hh mm ss ff  where the optional minus sign indicates a negative time interval  the d component is days  hh is hours as measured on a 24-hour clock  mm is minutes  ss is seconds  and ff is fractions of a second    So in this case  you can display using AM PM as follows   TimeSpan storedTime   new TimeSpan 03 00 00   string displayValue   new DateTime   Add storedTime  ToString  hh mm tt       Side note   Also should note that the TimeOfDay property of DateTime is a TimeSpan  where it represents     a time interval that represents the fraction of the day that has elapsed since midnight

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