Time/date on my home page

[specter]

Hi everyone,

I'm wondering for a simple way to install a time/date indicator on my web site home page;
Has anyone a good idea to suggest?

Thanks

[txbakers]

You can use Javascript for this: document.write(now()) is the most basic way to add this.

Look up the Javascript Date functions to see other configurations.

[specter]

Have I to add exactly this line:

document.write(now())

?

[tbear]

If your server has php functional you can add the following:
<?php print (Date("l, d F , Y"));?>

[Terabytes]

...or a local solution

<script language=javascript1.1>
now = new Date();
day = new Object();
month = new Object();
day[0] = "Sunday";
day[1] = "Monday";
day[2] = "Tuesday";
day[3] = "Wednesday";
day[4] = "Thursday";
day[5] = "Friday";
day[6] = "Saturday";
month[0] = "Jan.";
month[1] = "Feb.";
month[2] = "March";
month[3] = "April";
month[4] = "May";
month[5] = "June";
month[6] = "July";
month[7] = "Aug.";
month[8] = "Sept.";
month[9] = "Oct.";
month[10] = "Nov.";
month[11] = "Dec.";
year = now.getYear();
if (year < 1000) year += 1900;
document.write(day[now.getDay()] + ", " + month[now.getMonth()] + " " + now.getDate() + ", " + year);
</script>

[specter]

Many thanks guys!

Sincerely

[specter]

oops!

My clock doesn't work...

I copied the javascript code in my page but it appears as itself;
What am I missing?

Thanks

[Terabytes]

I'm guessing that you copied the code snippet directly from the page and then pasted it into your favorite WYSIWYG Editor....

Copy the code from the page here, then paste it into something like notepad...

Copy the code from notepad and paste it into your editor...

Sometimes extra HTML comes along with text copied directly from the browser into WYSIWIG editors...

Pasting the code into notepad strips all the extranious garbage out...(formating, etc) and gives you just text...

try it...

[specter]

Thanks again.
I'll let you know

[specter]

Well!

It runs fine.
As I'm not properly a javascript geek,let me ask you a last couple of questions:

1)What for the time?
2)How can I show it on a single raw?

Sincerely

[Terabytes]

that particular snippet grabs the time/date from the current system time..

(The time/date is taken from the computer that displays the web page it's on...)

If the users computer is wacked (IE date set to Sept 19, 1995) the time display will reflect that error also...

Tera