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Created July 24, 2013 10:30
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Display Date and Time in Javascript The script is simple, we will use the Javascript Object Date to get the date and the time. We will display the month in words(January, February...).
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date_time.html
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Display Date and Time in Javascript</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="date_time.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<span id="date_time"></span>
<script type="text/javascript">window.onload = date_time('date_time');</script>
</body>
</html>
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date_time.js
function date_time(id)
{
date = new Date;
year = date.getFullYear();
month = date.getMonth();
months = new Array('January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'Jully', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December');
d = date.getDate();
day = date.getDay();
days = new Array('Sunday', 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday');
h = date.getHours();
if(h<10)
{
h = "0"+h;
}
m = date.getMinutes();
if(m<10)
{
m = "0"+m;
}
s = date.getSeconds();
if(s<10)
{
s = "0"+s;
}
result = ''+days[day]+' '+months[month]+' '+d+' '+year+' '+h+':'+m+':'+s;
document.getElementById(id).innerHTML = result;
setTimeout('date_time("'+id+'");','1000');
return true;
}
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