strftime formatting with Ruby/Rails -- Lowercase am/pm

Question

I have the following:

@comment.created_at.strftime("%I:%M %p %b %d")

Which outputs: 10:32 AM Dec 19

I'd like to output a lowercase am, like: 10:32am Dec 19

Any ideas on how to do that with ruby/rails?

thanks

Answer 1

Try to use %P instead using %p

Answer 2

Use %P instead of %p. That'll work with ruby 1.9 but for 1.8 you'll need to use .sub(' AM ', ' am ').sub(' PM ', ' pm ') or similar.