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Get Current Time Using JavaScript

1. January 2009 AngryCoder Javascript , DHTML Tricks Comments (0)

Here is the quick code to get the current time in 12 hours format using JavaScript.

   1: <script language="javascript">
   2: function getTime() {
   3:     var dTime = new Date();
   4:     var hours = dTime.getHours();
   5:     var minute = dTime.getMinutes();
   6:     var period = "AM";
   7:     if (hours > 12) {
   8:         period = "PM"
   9:     }
  10:     else {
  11:         period = "AM";
  12:     }
  13:     hours = ((hours > 12) ? hours - 12 : hours)
  14:     return hours + ":" + minute + " " + period
  15: }
  16: </script>
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