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Asked: 2026-05-14T16:34:28+00:00

How can I get the time of the client side? When I use date()

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How can I get the time of the client side?
When I use date() it returns server’s time.

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  1. Editorial Team

    As mentioned by everyone PHP only displays server side time.

    For client side, you would need Javascript, something like the following should do the trick.

    var currentTime = new Date();
var hours = currentTime.getHours();
var minutes = currentTime.getMinutes();

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

document.write("<b>" + hours + ":" + minutes + " " + "</b>");

    And if you want the AM/PM suffix, something like the following should work:

    var currentTime = new Date();
var hours = currentTime.getHours();
var minutes = currentTime.getMinutes();

var suffix = "AM";

if (hours >= 12) {
    suffix = "PM";
    hours = hours - 12;
}

if (hours == 0) {
    hours = 12;
}

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

document.write("<b>" + hours + ":" + minutes + " " + suffix + "</b>");

    Here is a list of additional JavaScript Date and Time functions you could mess around with.

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