Question

I store articles in a mysql database with their corresponding timestamps.

I would like to format the timestamps using the date(), and display whether it’s AM or PM when the article is retrieved from the database. Any help will be highly appreciated.

Answer 1

Assuming you are using MySQL, you need to use date_format():

SELECT DATE_FORMAT(hour_column, '%r');

This gives you a 12 hour formatted time (hh:mm:ss followed by AM or PM), anyway also have a look at the relvant bits of the MySQL Documentation