Question

I’ve been playing with jquery and I’ve run myself into a time problem. I’ve got 3 time input select boxes, one for hours, one for minutes, and one for the Meridian. I need to convert this time into a 24 hour string format and then stick it into a hidden input.

var time = ''; time += $('#EventCloseTimeHour option:selected').text(); time += ':' + $('#EventCloseTimeMin option:selected').text() + ':00'; time += ' ' + $('#EventCloseTimeMeridian option:selected').text();  $('#ConditionValue').val(time);          

This gives me ‘1:30:00 pm’ where I need ’13:30:00′. Any quick javascript time tips?

Answer 1

Example of tj111 suggestion:

$('#ConditionValue').val(     (         new Date(             '01/01/2000 ' +              $('#EventCloseTimeHour option:selected').text() +             $('#EventCloseTimeMin option:selected').text() + ':00' +             ' ' +             $('#EventCloseTimeMeridian option:selected').text()         )     ).toTimeString().slice(0,8)) ; 

Or you can use:

hour = hour %12 + (meridian === 'AM'? 0 : 12); hour = hour < 10 ? '0' + hour : hour;