Re: strftime silliness

On 11 Apr 2012 at 01:47, Geoff Shang <geoff@QuiteLikely.com> wrote: > On Wed, 10 Apr 2012, Tim Streater wrote: > >> I want to format a date/time using a 12 hour representation of the time >> part. I can do this with, say, "%d %b %Y %l:%M %p", where the first time >> format specifier is the lower-case L. But, this gives me a leading space >> in the case that the hour is less than 12. I don't want this space. >> Anyone know of an simple way to avoid it? There appears to be no >> specifier to do this. Of course, I can call strftime twice, once for the >> date portion and once for the time portion, trimming the latter, but >> that seems clumsy. > > You can use %-l to achieve this. You could also use %-I as this will also > drop leading zeros if present. > > I forget where I read about this. I'm almost certain that it was *not* in > any PHP documentation. Ah - thanks. My post wasn't a complete waste of time after all then. I ended up using date(). But is %-l officially supported? -- Cheers -- Tim