A jQuery date script that appends the current date & time to a DOM element

showDateIn.js

function showDateIn(elem) {
        var date = new Date();
        var today = date.toLocaleDateString();
        var hours = date.getHours();
        var minutes = date.getMinutes();
        var ampm;

        if (minutes < 10) {
            minutes = "0" + minutes;
        }

        if (hours == 12) {
            ampm = "PM";          
        } else if (hours > 11 && hours != 12) {
            ampm = "PM";
            hours = hours - 12;
        }
        else {
            ampm = "AM";
        }

        var time = hours + ":" + minutes + " " + ampm;
        $(elem).append(today + " &#64; " + time);
    }

showDateIn('#div');