strftime doesn't show PM or AM

Question

This is the code I use to get the date (in spanish):

$fecha = strftime("%d de %B, %Y, a las %l:%M %p");

and I get:

27 de julio, 2011, a las 7:10

So the question is, where is my PM (or AM)?

My application is running on Linux.

Answer 1

Well,, the php manual says

Not all conversion specifiers may be supported by your C library, in which case they will not be supported by PHP's strftime(). Additionally, not all platforms support negative timestamps, so your date

This could be your problem. In that case you could do something like this to get the AM/PM:

$time = time();
$fecha = strftime("%d de %B, %Y, a las %l:%M ", $time).(($time%86400) < 43200 ? 'AM' : 'PM');

EDIT:

This answer is assuming you want a UTC time string (if you want another timezone, you should also include the timezone in the string if you are storing it or sending it anywhere), and that your php.ini has date.timezone set to UTC . If you are not using UTC, you should compute an offset. See @Soylent17's answer.