Question

I am pulling values from a database that contain military time as 1330 (don’t ask why)

I want to convert the 1330 to 13:30 and then run strtotime to turn 13:30:00 into 1:30pm

I am having writers block as to how I can place a colon : between the 2 and 3 character, in 1330

Answer 1

You can do it using:

$time = substr($time, 0, 2) . ':' . substr($time, 2);

But Why are you splitting .You can directly get your output 1:30pm with:

echo date("h:i a",strtotime(1330));

The second option will give you result more faster. Why wasting time splitting.

Hope this helps 🙂