showing date/time

Anon

29/11/2000

I dont know if this is possible or not, but what i would to do is when comes to my site, they are shown the time on the server & also their time where ever they are. So someone from uk will be shown gmt time and so on.

Is that possible ?

Thanks

Anon

You can do the "servertime" with php, plenty examples in the PHP manual under functionjs like strftime and mktime etc.

As for the time on the user side, I'd recommend using javascript (even though I hate it)
Javascript has a function to print the system time of the PC.
Otherwise you'd have to figure out where the HTTP request came from, create a time, adjust it for the timezone, and print it. That sounds like work, and is therefore undesirable :-)

Anon

Use The Date() function

as far as time I recomend JavaScript or Flash for a "Live" clock..

see http://www.php.net/

goto Quick Ref
lookup Date()
🙂

Anon

Here is a very cool! JavaScript for Day,Date,Time and it's LIVE... Change the colors to fit your page...

<body bgcolor="#000000" text="#000000">
<script language=JavaScript1.2>
var textcolor = "#FFFFFF"
var seccolor = "#CC9900"
var face = "Arial"
var size = "2"
var timerwidth = 150
</script>

<script language=JavaScript1.2>
function start_countdown()
{
//init();
if (document.layers)
document.timermain.visibility="show"
getSecs()
}

if (document.all)
document.write('<span id="timerie" style="width:&{timerwidth};"></span>')

window.onload=start_countdown

function getSecs()
{
if (!document.layers&&!document.all)
return;
var myTime = new Date();
var thisDate = myTime.getDate();
var seconds = myTime.getSeconds();
var minutes = myTime.getMinutes();
var hours = myTime.getHours();
var day = myTime.getDay();
var month = myTime.getMonth();
var year = myTime.getYear();
if (day==0)
day="Sun";
else if (day==1)
day="Mon";
else if (day==2)
day="Tues";
else if (day==3)
day="Wed";
else if (day==4)
day="Thur";
else if (day==5)
day="Fri";
else if (day==6)
day="Sat";

	if (month==0)
		month="Jan";
	else if (month==1)
		month="Feb";
	else if (month==2)
		month="Mar";
	else if (month==3)
		month="Apr";
	else if (month==4)
		month="May";
	else if (month==5)
		month="Jun";
	else if (month==6)
		month="Jul";
	if (month==7)
		month="Aug";
	else if (month==8)
		month="Sep";
	else if (month==9)
		month="Oct";

	else if (month==10)
		month="Nov";
	else if (month==11)
		month="Dec";

	var dn="AM";
	if (hours>12)
	{
	 	dn="PM";
	 	hours=hours-12;
	}
	if (hours==0)
		hours=12;
	if (seconds<=9)
		seconds = "0"+seconds;
	if (minutes<=9)
		minutes="0"+minutes;	

	var year = myTime.getYear();
	if (year<1000) year+=1900;

	if (document.layers)
	{
		document.timermain.document.timersub.document.write("<font color=" + textcolor + " face=" + face + " size=" + size + ">" + day + ", " + month + "." + thisDate + "," + year + " " + hours + ":" + minutes + ":<font color=" + seccolor + ">" + seconds + "</font> " + dn + "</font>")
		document.timermain.document.timersub.document.close()
	}
	else if (document.all)
		timerie.innerHTML="<font color=" + textcolor + " face=" + face + " size=" + size + ">" + day + ", " + month + "." + thisDate + "," + year + " " + hours + ":" + minutes + ":<font color=" + seccolor + ">" + seconds + "</font> " + dn + "</font>"
	setTimeout("getSecs()",1000)
}

</script>
<ilayer id=timermain visibility="hide" height="23;"
width="&{timerwidth};">
<layer id=timersub top="0" height="23;"
width="&{timerwidth};" left="0"></layer>
</ilayer>
</body>

Anon

It better be great, that's over 6KBytes of code! :-)

Anon

LOL, That's why they call it JavaScript... <grin>

Maybe I should have E-mailed the code to him rather than post it on a forum... hmmm...

Anyways, Happy New Years...

Anon

Thanks for the code, i will have a look.

Anon

giggle indeed.. you need a cup of java to get you through a script like that :-)

Anyway, I wasn't complaining about the size of the post...
I was just wondering because this script alone is longer than most of my html pages :-)