Question

The jquery FullCalendar plugin has a neat format for time.

If it the time is 7:00pm, the format shows up as 7p.

If it the time is 7:30am, the format shows up as 7:30a.

Question: Is there any way to use standard formatting to accomplish this with c# sharp? Obviously I can create logic to do this myself, but I’m hoping there is a format string that will accopmlish this.

ie (doesn’t work):

MyDateTime.ToString("h{:mm}t");

Answer 1

Formatting strings do not have conditionals – there is no way to specify a condition within a format string.

You will need to use a standard if and format accordingly.

if(MyDateTime.Minutes == 0)
{
  return MyDateTime.ToString("h");
}

return MyDateTime.ToString"h:mmt");

Or, in one line:

return MyDateTime.ToString((MyDateTime.Minutes == 0)?"h":"h:mmt");