Question

Try as I might I can’t get my data outside the function with a global var. I have tried everything that I can think of including window.nuTime without success.

$.ajax({
    cache: false,
    type: 'POST',              
    url: 'servertime.asp',
    data: {},
    success:    function (data) {
                $('#servertime').html(data);
                window.nuTime = data;
                //alert(data);
                },
    error:      function (jxhr, msg, err) {
                $('#response').append('<li style="color:red">' + msg + '</li>');
                }
    });

alert(nuTime);

Answer 1

Kolink is right ! You could improve this doing like that :

$.ajax({
    cache: false,
    type: 'POST',              
    url: 'servertime.asp',
    data: {},
    success:    function (data) {
                    $('#servertime').html(data);
                    alertNuTime(data);
                },
    error:      function (jxhr, msg, err) {
                    $('#response').append('<li style="color:red">' + msg + '</li>');
                }
    });

function alertNuTime(data) {
    alert(data);
}