new Date("2000-01-01 10:30 AM").getHours() // 10
This is 24 hours:
new Date("2000-01-01 10:30 PM").getHours() // 22
If you want a more general thing:
function get_hours(time_string) {
return new Date("2000-01-01 " + time_string).getHours() // 22
}