Question

i want my server time and date to be set as new date
i have tried this:

   dateNow = new Date("<%=now()%>");

but this is not working
how can i do this?

here is the code that give me the problem…
it is just get stack on the time diff and doesn’t countdown

<script type="text/javascript">
dateFuture = new Date(<%=year(privatesellstartdate)%>,<%=month(privatesellstartdate)-1%>,<%=day(privatesellstartdate)%>,<%=hour(privatesellstarttime)%>,<%=minute(privatesellstarttime)%>,00);

function GetCount(){
dateNow = new Date(<%=year(date())%>,<%=month(date())-1%>,<%=day(date())%>,<%=hour(time())%>,<%=minute(time())%>,00);               //grab current date
    amount = dateFuture.getTime() - dateNow.getTime();      //calc milliseconds between dates
    delete dateNow;

    // time is already past
    if(amount < 0){
        document.getElementById('countbox').innerHTML="Now!";
}
    // date is still good
    else{
        days=0;hours=0;mins=0;secs=0;out="";

        amount = Math.floor(amount/1000);//kill the "milliseconds" so just secs

        days=Math.floor(amount/86400);//days
        amount=amount%86400;

        hours=Math.floor(amount/3600);//hours
        amount=amount%3600;

        mins=Math.floor(amount/60);//minutes
        amount=amount%60;

        secs=Math.floor(amount);//seconds

        if(days != 0){out += days +":";}
        if(days != 0 || hours != 0){out += hours +":";}
        if(days != 0 || hours != 0 || mins != 0){out += mins +":";}
        out += ((secs>=10)?secs:"0"+secs) ;
        document.getElementById('countbox').innerHTML=out;

        setTimeout("GetCount()", 1000);
    }
}
window.onload=GetCount;//call when everything has loaded

</script>

Answer 1

VBScript’s Now returns the date and the time like:

5/27/2010 6:06:39 PM 

JavaScript’s Date() constructor doesn’t like that particular format. Instantiating a JavaScript Date with time from a string requires the time to be in 24h format. It looks like you’re trying to cobble it together correctly in the code you pasted though. Not sure why that isn’t working.

My question is why do the date comparison on the client-side at all? VBScript’s DateDiff would take care of this for you on the server-side:

var seconds = <%= DateDiff("s", Now, privatesellstartdate) %>;

if (seconds > 0) {
  var days = <%= DateDiff("d", Now, privatesellstartdate) %>;

  var hours = <%= DateDiff("h", Now, privatesellstartdate) %>;

  var minutes = <%= DateDiff("n", Now, privatesellstartdate) %>;

  // Your logic here.
}