Question

HI in my webpage, I’ve got 3 different clocks made by flash. All the flash clocks are working. Now i need to set the real time to all these 3 clocks. Do you have any idea to show the real clock to the html web page using javascript or jquery? i need to show the clocks for London, Newyork and New delhi. Is it possible?

This flash clocks have the parameters to set the times like this:

{thisH:myH + 2,thisM:myM + 2,thisS:myS + 2};

So, do I just need to pass the real times to this variables. How can i get 3 different times from any server? Any one help me?

Answer 1

You can use earthtools.org . They have a free web service that provides you with all the time data you might want for any place on earth.

http://www.earthtools.org/webservices.htm#timezone

this is an example of the data for NY:
http://www.earthtools.org/timezone-1.1/40.71417/-74.00639

will return:

<timezone xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://www.earthtools.org/timezone-1.1.xsd">
  <version>1.1</version>
  <location>
    <latitude>40.71417</latitude>
    <longitude>-74.00639</longitude>
  </location>
  <offset>-5</offset>
  <suffix>R</suffix>
  <localtime>24 May 2011 06:05:51</localtime>
  <isotime>2011-05-24 06:05:51 -0500</isotime>
  <utctime>2011-05-24 11:05:51</utctime>
  <dst>Unknown</dst>
</timezone>

You can consume the service easily with jQuery