Question

I try to display the current time in my server(the web page it’s in my server) but when I open the web page I get the time on the computer that runs the page.

Is there a way to do that ?

This is my code :

function startTime(){
  var today=new Date();
  var h=today.getHours();
  var m=today.getMinutes();
  var s=today.getSeconds();

  m=checkTime(m);
  s=checkTime(s);
  $('#cTime').val(h+":"+m+":"+s);
  t=setTimeout(function(){startTime()},500);
}

function checkTime(i){
  if (i<10) {
         i="0" + i;
      }
  return i;
}

Thank you.

Answer 1

JavaScript will always return the time on the computer it’s run on since it’s executed client-side.

You can write a simple script on your server that outputs the current time and send a request to that script via JavaScript.

You can do something like this:

PHP

<?php
    // get_time.php
    // Simple!
    echo time();
?>

JavaScript

// Using jQuery's GET function...
$.get('get_time.php', function(data){
    // The variable 'data' should equal the result from the PHP time() function!
    alert(data);
})