Rails 12 hour AM/PM range for a day

This is a really simple question, and it's probably been asked and answered before, but I haven't been able to find anything.

Anyway, I need a range/array for 12 hour time, so like 12AM - 11AM, 12PM - 11PM. You probably get the gist of it. Right now I'm trying to do an absurdly complicated method involving mapping AM onto one array, PM onto another one, and then joining the two arrays together. There has to be an easier way to do this.

I know about Rails `time_select`, but I need a different format than what it provides. Any suggestions?

**Clarification:** So what I'm looking for is the [12-hour clock][1], with AM and PM. If I wanted a 24-hour clock, I could just do `(0..24)`, and be done. But the 12-hour clock goes from 12-11 AM, and then goes from 12-11 PM. I'm pretty sure someone has done this before.


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I agree with @MrYoshi's comment, the easiest way of formatting a date is `.strftime()`,
see [RubyDoc][1] for all possible options

Example:

Time.now.strftime("%I:%M %p")

output: HH:MM AM

Or what you literally asked for:

Time.now.strftime("%I:00")

output: HH:00

As you mentioned `time_select` I assume you want to offer time as a user selectable range, so try these options for `time_select`([more options][2]):

time_select 'game', 'game_time', {:minute_step => 60, :ampm => true}

also this previous question:

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I know this has already been answered awhile ago with the built in. But I needed a custom function to get these values and wrote this:

times = {"12 AM" => 0}.merge!(1.upto(11).collect { |n| {"#{n} AM" => n} }.reduce(Hash.new, :merge)).merge!({"12 PM" => 12}).merge!(1.upto(11).collect { |n| {"#{n} PM" => n + 12} }.reduce(Hash.new, :merge))


This yields:

{"12 AM"=>0, "1 AM"=>1, "2 AM"=>2, "3 AM"=>3, "4 AM"=>4, "5 AM"=>5, "6 AM"=>6, "7 AM"=>7, "8 AM"=>8, "9 AM"=>9, "10 AM"=>10, "11 AM"=>11, "12 PM"=>12, "1 PM"=>13, "2 PM"=>14, "3 PM"=>15, "4 PM"=>16, "5 PM"=>17, "6 PM"=>18, "7 PM"=>19, "8 PM"=>20, "9 PM"=>21, "10 PM"=>22, "11 PM"=>23}

Rails does this built in

<%= f.time_select :start, {ampm: true} %>

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