A live and active time and date with vanilla Javascript.
Start by setting variables for the date string:
var today = new Date(); var day = today.getDate(); var month = today.getMonth() + 1;
Month is plus 1 because January is represented as 0, Febuary as 1 etc when in normal systems January is 1, Febuary is 2.
Now the current time function. This sets the HTML element #time to the browser time with toLocaleTimeString. Click the link to see formating options.
function theTime() {
var d = new Date();
document.getElementById("time").innerHTML = d.toLocaleTimeString("en-US");
}Make the days and months value a two digit string. 1 becomes 01, 5 will become 05 etc:
if (day < 10) {
day = appendZero(day);
}
if (month < 10) {
month = appendZero(month);
}The today date string as day/month/year which is then assigned to the #date element.
Then finally the time function being refreshed every seconds thanks to setInterval.
today = day + "/" + month + "/" + today.getFullYear();
document.getElementById("date").innerHTML = today;
var myVar = setInterval(function () {
theTime();
}, 1000);The HTML:
<div class="container">
<div class="row text-center">
<div class="col-12">
<div class="card">
<h1 id="time" class="time"></h1>
<h1 id="date" class="date"></h1>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
