Grabbing the Server Time

[junkjones]

Hi everyone,

I am a beginner at javascript, and I'm having some troubles with a script I'm trying to use.

I downloaded a countdown script which works great... however, it's using the user's time on their computer to reference the countdown, but I need everyone's countdown to be the same, even if their computer's clock is a little off, or if they are in a different time zone.

I need to know how to use the SERVER's clock instead of the user's clock - is there a way? Here is the code I am currently using:

var today=new Date()
var todayy=today.getYear()
if (todayy < 1000)
todayy+=1900
var todaym=today.getMonth()
var todayd=today.getDate()
var todayh=today.getHours()
var todaymin=today.getMinutes()
var todaysec=today.getSeconds()
var todaystring=montharray[todaym]+&quot; &quot;+todayd+&quot;, &quot;+todayy+&quot; &quot;+todayh+&quot;:&quot;+todaymin+&quot;:&quot;+todaysec
futurestring=montharray[mo-1]+&quot; &quot;+da+&quot;, &quot;+yr+&quot; &quot;+hr+&quot;:&quot;+minute+&quot;:&quot;+sec

Is there an easy way to do this?
Thanks in Advance!!!

 

[onpnt]

The easiest way would be to do it with VBscript and change your file to a asp page. As long as your server supports them.

it would look something like this.
<%response.write(date())%>.
<%response.write(time())%>.
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[junkjones]

Thanks onpnt for your quick response!

The server I'm using does not support ASP. Does it have to be a server-side scripting/programming language used to grab the server computer's date and time? Does this mean that client-side scripts can only grab the user's date and time? I am using ColdFusion for the rest of the site, so I can easily grab the current time off the server, however it's a countdown script, so the javascript checks the time and date every second and counts it down. If I get the server's time using ColdFusion, it does not count down anymore (because CF just checked the time once when it loaded the page).

 

[onpnt]

As far as I know (I'm sure there's a way for everything) you can't do what you want with the server without some kind server side code. provide tools to let people become their best.