Question

I am trying to figure out some way to get actual time via JavaScript, jQuery, JSON, etc…

I’ve got these two sites that host the time for exactly that purpose

• http://www.timeapi.org/utc/now
• http://json-time.appspot.com/time.json

and this site that actualy explains how to get the time but i cant seem to figure it out, since i dont really know json, only javascript.

• http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/getting-the-real-time-in-javascript/

I’ve searched a lot but couldn’t figure out how to extract data from another website using JavaScript.

if someone could help me get the time from one of these sites into a variable in JavaScriptthat would be great.thanks.

Answer 1

You can run this right in the console if you’re using chrome or firefox:

jQuery.ajax({dataType:'jsonp',
             url:'http://json-time.appspot.com/time.json?tz=Europe/London',
             success:function(data){x=data;console.log(x);}})

You’ll see that x now contains the json time object.

Hope this helps.