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>