How do I get the AM PM value from a DateTime

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The code in question is below     public static string ChangePersianDate DateTime dateTime        System Globalization GregorianCalendar PC   new System Globalization GregorianCalendar        PC CalendarType   System Globalization GregorianCalendarTypes USEnglish      return     PC GetYear dateTime  ToString                   PC GetMonth dateTime  ToString                   PC GetDayOfMonth dateTime  ToString                  PC GetHour dateTime  ToString                   PC GetMinute dateTime  ToString                   PC GetSecond dateTime  ToString                                      how can I get the AM PM from the dateTime value

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How about   dateTime ToString  tt   CultureInfo InvariantCulture

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string Format   0 hh mm ss tt    DateTime Now    This should give you the string value of the time  tt should append the am pm   You can also look at the related topic   How do you get the current time of day

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If you want to add time to LongDateString Date  you can format it this way      DateTime date   DateTime Now      string formattedDate   date ToLongDateString         string formattedTime   date ToShortTimeString        Label1 Text    quot New Formatted Date   quot    formattedDate    quot   quot    formattedTime   Output  New Formatted Date  Monday  January 1  1900 8 53 PM

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Here is an easier way you can write the time format  hh mm ss tt  and display them separately if you wish    string time   DateTime Now Hour ToString  00           DateTime Now Minute ToString  00           DateTime Now Second ToString  00     DateTime Now ToString   tt      or just simply       DateTime Now ToString  hh mm ss tt

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I know this might seem to be extremely late   however it may help someone out there   I wanted to get the AM PM part of the date  so I used what Andy advised   dateTime ToString  tt      I used that part to construct a Path to save my files   I built my assumptions that I will get either AM or PM and nothing else     however when I used a PC that its culture is not English     in my case ARABIC     my application failed becase the format  tt  returned something new not AM nor PM     or       So the fix to this was to ignore the culture by adding the second argument as follow    dateTime ToString  tt   CultureInfo InvariantCulture        of course u have to add   using System Globalization  on top of ur file  I hope that will help someone

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Very simple by using the string format on  ToString  quot  quot      if you use  quot hh quot  - gt  gt  The hour  using a 12-hour clock from 01 to 12   if you use  quot HH quot  - gt  gt  The hour  using a 24-hour clock from 00 to 23   if you add  quot tt quot  - gt  gt  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  quot hh mm tt quot         this show  11 12 Pm var res2   d ToString  quot HH mm quot        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 - gt  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  gt current system isn t set to English    easy just by adding two lines   - gt  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  quot HH mm tt quot   CultureInfo InvariantCulture      this show  11 12 Pm  InvariantCulture   gt  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  quot HH mm tt quot   CultureInfo CreateSpecificCulture  quot ar-AE quot       this will show    23 12   event if my system is set to an English region format  you can change  quot ar-AE quot  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   big list     make me know if you have another question

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You can test it in this way  Console WriteLine DateTime Now ToString  tt        The output will be like this   AM   or  PM

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its pretty simple    Date someDate   new DateTime      string timeOfDay   someDate ToString  hh mm tt          hh - shows hour and mm - shows minute - tt - shows AM or PM

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PC GetHour datetime   gt  11    pm     am    For your example but there are better ways to format datetime

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string AM PM   string Format   0 hh mm ss tt    DateTime Now  Split new char         1

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Something like bool isPM   GetHour    gt  11  But if you want to format a date to a string  you shouldn t need to do this yourself  Use the date formatting functions for that

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The DateTime should always be internally in the  american   Gregorian  calendar  So if you do  var str   dateTime ToString   yyyy MM dd hh mm ss tt   new CultureInfo  en-US       you should get what you want in many less lines

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Andy s answer is Okay  But if you want to show time without 24 hours format then you may follow like this way   string dateTime   DateTime Now ToString  hh mm ss tt   CultureInfo InvariantCulture     After that  you should get time like as  10 35 20 PM  or   10 35 20 AM

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From  http   www csharp-examples net string-format-datetime   string Format   0 t tt    datetime       - gt   P PM   or  A AM

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