Change dateTime format of data being pulled from Google API

Question

I'm currently pulling in the time of an event from Google Calendars, using PHP and Google's Calendar API. Google's API gives the time in a dateTime format:

["COURSE_DATE"]=>
string(25) "2014-09-22T06:00:00-04:00"

I would like for the string to be displayed in the following format:

date("h:i A");

How can I edit the string so that only the time is being displayed?

Answer 1

You should first parse the time using PHP's DateTime, and then format it accordingly.

<?php
date_default_timezone_set('America/Toronto'); // If not set already :)
$courseDate = new DateTime('2014-09-22T06:00:00-04:00');
echo $courseDate->format('h:i A');
?>