Convert time span value to format “hh:mm Am/Pm” using C#

Question

I have a value stored in variable of type System.TimeSpan as follows.

System.TimeSpan storedTime = 03:00:00;

Can I re-store it

Answer 1

You cannot add AM / PM to a TimeSpan. You'll anyway have to associate the TimaSpan value with DateTime if you want to display the time in 12-hour clock format.

TimeSpan is not intended to use with a 12-hour clock format, because we are talking about a time interval here.

As it says in the documentation;

A TimeSpan object represents a time interval (duration of time or elapsed time) that is measured as a positive or negative number of days, hours, minutes, seconds, and fractions of a second. The TimeSpan structure can also be used to represent the time of day, but only if the time is unrelated to a particular date. Otherwise, the DateTime or DateTimeOffset structure should be used instead.

Also Microsoft Docs describes as follows;

A TimeSpan value can be represented as [-]d.hh:mm:ss.ff, where the optional minus sign indicates a negative time interval, the d component is days, hh is hours as measured on a 24-hour clock, mm is minutes, ss is seconds, and ff is fractions of a second.

So in this case, you can display using AM/PM as follows.

TimeSpan storedTime = new TimeSpan(03,00,00);
string displayValue = new DateTime().Add(storedTime).ToString("hh:mm tt");

Side note :
Also should note that the TimeOfDay property of DateTime is a TimeSpan, where it represents

a time interval that represents the fraction of the day that has elapsed since midnight.

Answer 2

string displayValue="03:00 AM";

This is a point in time , not a duration (TimeSpan).

So something is wrong with your basic design or assumptions.

If you do want to use it, you'll have to convert it to a DateTime (point in time) first. You can format a DateTime without the date part, that would be your desired string.

TimeSpan t1 = ...;
DateTime d1 = DateTime.Today + t1;               // any date will do
string result = d1.ToString("hh:mm:ss tt");

storeTime variable can have value like
storeTime=16:00:00;

No, it can have a value of 4 o'clock but the representation is binary, a TimeSpan cannot record the difference between 16:00 and 4 pm.

Answer 3

You can add the TimeSpan to a DateTime, for example:

TimeSpan span = TimeSpan.FromHours(16);
DateTime time = DateTime.Today + span;
String result = time.ToString("hh:mm tt");

Demo: http://ideone.com/veJ6tT

04:00 PM

Standard Date and Time Format Strings

Answer 4

You will need to get a DateTime object from your TimeSpan and then you can format it easily.

One possible solution is adding the timespan to any date with zero time value.

var timespan = new TimeSpan(3, 0, 0);
var output = new DateTime().Add(timespan).ToString("hh:mm tt");

The output value will be "03:00 AM" (for english locale).

Answer 5

You can try this:

   string timeexample= string.Format("{0:hh:mm:ss tt}", DateTime.Now);

you can remove hh or mm or ss or tt according your need where hh is hour in 12 hr formate, mm is minutes,ss is seconds,and tt is AM/PM.

Answer 6

At first, you need to convert time span to DateTime structure:

var dt = new DateTime(2000, 12, 1, timeSpan.Hours, timeSpan.Minutes, timeSpan.Seconds)

Then you need to convert the value to string with Short Time format

var result = dt.ToString("t"); // Convert to string using Short Time format