Ok, here is what im trying to do...

im trying to get the Hours, Minutes and Seconds for a dynamic clock that will be off the server time... it will be cool because you can see the time on the server in real time... i am thinking of maybe making this into a mod if i get it finished real quick.

HI.

If U want a live clock I have on in javascript but it is in danish so U have to changes the names and so on !!

http://www.javacoder.dk:56400/tid.htm - http://www.javacoder.dk:56400/tid.htm

the code:

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px" bgcolor="#ffffff">
          <tr>
            <td width="140">
              <p style="margin-left: 3; margin-top: 2; margin-bottom: 2">
             
<!--webbot bot="HTMLMarkup" startspan -->
<font color="#000000" size="1" face="Verdana">
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"><!--
var ugeDag = new Array ("SØNDAG","MANDAG","TIRSDAG","ONSDAG","TORSDAG","FREDAG","LØRDAG")
var maaned = new Array ("JAN","FEB","MAR","APR","MAJ","JUN","JUL","AUG","SEP","OKT","NOV","DEC")
var nu = new Date
//-->
document.write( ugeDag[nu.getDay()] + " " + nu.getDate() + ". " + maaned[nu.getMonth()] + " " + nu.getFullYear() )
//-->
</SCRIPT></font>
<!--webbot bot="HTMLMarkup" endspan -->             
             
              </p>
            </td>
            <td width="90">
              <p style="margin-top: 4; margin-bottom: 4"><font color="#000000">&nbsp;-&nbsp;
              KLOKKEN
              ER</font></p>
            </td>
            <td width="100">
              <p style="margin-top: 2; margin-bottom: 2">
             
<script Language="JavaScript">
fon_size=1
fon_famil="Verdana"
fon_color="#000000"
var ns=document.layers?1:0
var ie4=document.all?1:0
var ns6=document.getElementById&&!document.all?1:0

function tab_wri(nam_tab)
{
if(!ns)
 {
 document.write ("<DIV style='position:relative; left:0; top:0; width:"+(fon_size*5+2)+"'>")
 for (i=0; i<10; i++){document.write ("<DIV style='position:absolute; left:0; top:0; visibility:hidden ' ID='tab"+nam_tab+"_n"+i+"'><font face="+fon_famil+" size="+fon_size+" color="+fon_color+">"+i+"</font></DIV>")}
 document.write ("</DIV>")
 }
 else
 {
 document.write ("<ilayer id='ilay"+nam_tab+"'>")
 for (i=0; i<10; i++){document.write("<layer visibility=hide ID='lay"+nam_tab+"_n"+i+"'><font face="+fon_famil+" size="+fon_size+" color="+fon_color+">"+i+"</font></layer>")}
 document.write ("</ilayer>")
 }
}
function see_num(nam_tab,num_tab)
{
if(ie4)
 {
 for(i=0; i<10; i++)
  {
  if(i==num_tab){document.all["tab"+nam_tab+"_n"+num_tab].style.visibility="visible"}
  else{document.all["tab"+nam_tab+"_n"+i].style.visibility="hidden"}
  }
 }
if(ns)
 {
 for(i=0; i<10; i++)
  {
  if(i==num_tab){document.layers["ilay"+nam_tab].document.layers["lay"+nam_tab+"_n"+num_tab].visibility="show"}
  else{document.layers["ilay"+nam_tab].document.layers["lay"+nam_tab+"_n"+i].visibility="hide"}
  }
 }
if(ns6)
 {
 for(i=0; i<10; i++)
  {
  if(i==num_tab){document.getElementById("tab"+nam_tab+"_n"+num_tab).style.visibility="visible"}
  else{document.getElementById("tab"+nam_tab+"_n"+i).style.visibility="hidden"}
  }
 }

}
sec_old="0"
function see_tim()
{
date_=new Date()
wr_s=date_.getSeconds()+""

if(sec_old==wr_s){return}

sec_old=wr_s
wr_h=date_.getHours()+""
wr_m=date_.getMinutes()+""

if (wr_h.length==2){see_num(1,wr_h.charAt(0)); see_num(2,wr_h.charAt(1))}
else{see_num(1,0); see_num(2,wr_h.charAt(0))}

if (wr_m.length==2){see_num(3,wr_m.charAt(0)); see_num(4,wr_m.charAt(1))}
else{see_num(3,0); see_num(4,wr_m.charAt(0))}

if (wr_s.length==2){see_num(5,wr_s.charAt(0)); see_num(6,wr_s.charAt(1))}
else{see_num(5,0); see_num(6,wr_s.charAt(0))}

}

document.write ("<table  border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr valign=top><td>")
tab_wri(1)
document.write ("</td><td>")
tab_wri(2)
document.write ("</td><td><font face="+fon_famil+" size="+fon_size+" color="+fon_color+">:</font>")
document.write ("</td><td>")
tab_wri(3)
document.write ("</td><td>")
tab_wri(4)
document.write ("</td><td><font face="+fon_famil+" size="+fon_size+" color="+fon_color+">:</font>")
document.write ("</td><td>")
tab_wri(5)
document.write ("</td><td>")
tab_wri(6)
document.write ("</td></tr></table>")

see_tim()
tim_int=window.setInterval("see_tim()",200)

</script>             
             
              </p>
            </td>
            <td width="420">
              <p style="margin-top: 2; margin-bottom: 2">&nbsp;</p>
            </td>
          </tr>
        </table>

MorningZ wrote: whats wrong with just spitting out "Now()" ?

He means the time will increment not just stay static like if you use <%=now()%>...

i'm perfectly aware of what he thinks can happen....  have a real time running clock of the server time (if i'm wrong on this, then the topic starter correct me) ....  something that in the Client-Server world known as the internet is not feasible (and my definition/tolerance of feasible might differ from someone else's obviously) since this would require a constant refresh between client on a web browser and the remote server hosting pages..

which if you even remotely had "sorta busy" traffic, this kinda setup would cause way uneccessary strain on the server......

like I wrote

Posted: 24 June 2003 at 8:38am | IP Logged

It is running after the server timer !! I have now test it on 3 servers and the time that the script is showing is the same time/clock as the servers !!!

hour(now())
minute(now())
second(now())

that definatly wont work, but thanks...

you can make it dynamic, because i said! no, actually you can, because the time adds the numbers off the person's initial time on their clock and just adds numbers, it is possible, and i will eventually work... i just need to know how to get like the Hour and Minutes and Seconds off the server, im not asking anything tooo hard.

wow, i must be typing in "invisible font" today, lol

he's obviosuly trying to do something like this:
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex6/lcdclock.htm - http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex6/lcdclock.htm

but show the running server time, not the client's time... which "isn't possible" in server side script since once the page content gets served to the client, bam, the connection between the two computers is over with

just put

<%
   Response.Write(hour(now()) & ":")
   If minute(now()) < 10 then
      response.write ("0" & minute(now()) & " " & second(now()))
   Else
      Response.write (minute(now()) & " " & second(now()))
   End If
%>

genmud wrote: you are wrong... if you can format the thing so that you can get the Hours, Minutes and Seconds i guarentee that i could get it!

am i now?  lesse.. i recall a reply on this post by you: "i dont know much ASP" or something along those lines.......

its glaringly obvious you have absolutely zero idea "how" server script works, otherwise you'd understand that the only way to have a server-side update is to refresh the page (read: VERY server intensive and unusable for your visitors)

but what do i know, i've only coded ASP for a living for 4 years now, i dont know jack crap i guess

ASP script/code/whatever-you-wish-to-call-it runs on the server......

Now whatever it does, talk to a database, manipulate a local file, add 1+1, grab the server time, count to 1000 and do the hokey pokey......  whatever it does... the end result is HTML sent to the client (the computer/browser/human) on the other side of the connection who made the request....   once it delivers the HTML, the web server and client are through talking..... 

Now while you can have ASP "used in Javascript", be aware that the only time it'll do anything is when the page is rendered..

so...

in "test.asp" you have, and this is just a huge super slimmed down example:

<script language="javascript">
function ShowTime() {
 var CurrentTimeAsString = '<%= Now() %>';
}
</script>

if you "view" that page, you'd see something like:

<script language="javascript">
function ShowTime() {
 var CurrentTimeAsString = '6/25/2003 1:18:58 PM';
}
</script>

and at this point, ASP has done its job, page is rendered and delivered to the client, it no longer has a need to comminicate with the client, so the connection is severed

and this doesn't just go for ASP, it goes for PHP, and CF, and any other server-side language

Javascript on the other hand DOES run "real time" on the client.. so it has the ability to constantly update the page with something like, say, a clock....... so thats where the scripts on Dynamic Drive come in.... all that is pulling the time from the client and is in the realm of what it has access to (locally on the client's browser), it has abolutely zero access to the server at this post

Now this isn't saying that one couldn't write some code that "starts" from the "Now()" provided by the server, and then every second increments that initial time given by the server and constantly updates the page, but understand that the time will be off more and more as the javascript takes time to run