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Question

is it possible to create a jQuery function so that it gets current date and time? I've been looking around documentation but haven't found anything so far...

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Solution

@nickf's correct. However, to be a little more precise:

// if you try to print it, it will return something like:
// Sat Mar 21 2009 20:13:07 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
// This time comes from the user's machine.
var myDate = new Date();

So if you want to display it as mm/dd/yyyy, you would do this:

var displayDate = (myDate.getMonth()+1) + '/' + (myDate.getDate()) + '/' + myDate.getFullYear();

Check out the full reference of the Date object. Unfortunately it is not nearly as nice to print out various formats as it is with other server-side languages. For this reason there-are-many-functions available in the wild.

OTHER TIPS

Yes, it is possible:

jQuery.now()

or simply

$.now()

see jQuery Documentation for jQuery.now()

You don't need jquery to do that, just javascript. For example, you can do a timer using this:

<body onload="clock();">

<script type="text/javascript">
function clock() {
   var now = new Date();
   var outStr = now.getHours()+':'+now.getMinutes()+':'+now.getSeconds();
   document.getElementById('clockDiv').innerHTML=outStr;
   setTimeout('clock()',1000);
}
clock();
</script>   

<div id="clockDiv"></div>

</body>

You can view a complete reference here: http://www.hunlock.com/blogs/Javascript_Dates-The_Complete_Reference

It's plain javascript:

new Date()

Digital Clock with jQuery

  <script type="text/javascript" src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js?ver=1.3.2'></script>
  <script type="text/javascript">
  $(document).ready(function() {
  function myDate(){
  var now = new Date();

  var outHour = now.getHours();
  if (outHour >12){newHour = outHour-12;outHour = newHour;}
  if(outHour<10){document.getElementById('HourDiv').innerHTML="0"+outHour;}
  else{document.getElementById('HourDiv').innerHTML=outHour;}

  var outMin = now.getMinutes();
  if(outMin<10){document.getElementById('MinutDiv').innerHTML="0"+outMin;}
  else{document.getElementById('MinutDiv').innerHTML=outMin;}

  var outSec = now.getSeconds();
  if(outSec<10){document.getElementById('SecDiv').innerHTML="0"+outSec;}
  else{document.getElementById('SecDiv').innerHTML=outSec;}


  } 
  myDate();
  setInterval(function(){   myDate();}, 1000);

  });
  </script>
  <style>
  body {font-family:"Comic Sans MS", cursive;}
  h1 {text-align:center;background: gray;color:#fff;padding:5px;padding-bottom:10px;}
  #Content {margin:0 auto;border:solid 1px gray;width:140px;display:table;background:gray;}
  #HourDiv, #MinutDiv, #SecDiv {float:left;color:#fff;width:40px;text-align:center;font-size:25px;}
  span {float:left;color:#fff;font-size:25px;}
  </style>
  <div id="clockDiv"></div>
  <h1>My jQery Clock</h1>
  <div id="Content">
  <div id="HourDiv"></div><span>:</span><div id="MinutDiv"></div><span>:</span><div id="SecDiv"></div>
  </div>

this is my way :

    <script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
    setInterval(function(){currentTime("#idTimeField")}, 500);
});
function currentTime(field) {
    var now = new Date();
    now = now.getHours() + ':' + now.getMinutes() + ':' + now.getSeconds();
    $(field).val(now);
}

it's not maybe the best but do the work :)

Annoyingly Javascript's date.getSeconds() et al will not pad the result with zeros 11:0:0 instead of 11:00:00.

So I like to use 

date.toLocaleTimestring()

Which renders 11:00:00 AM. Just beware when using the extra options, some browsers don't support them (Safari)

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