geting client side time

Question

how can i get the time of the client side? when i use date(). it returns server's time

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thanks

Answer 1

PHP is server side only as far as i know.

You maybe want to use JavaScript.

Answer 2

As PHP runs on the server-side, you cannot access the client-side time from PHP : PHP doesn't know much about the browser -- and you can have PHP scripts that run without being called from a browser.

But you could get it from Javascript (which is executed on the client-side), and, then, pass it to PHP via an Ajax request, for example.

And here are a couple of questions+answers that might help you getting started :

• Automatically detect user’s current local time with JavaScript or PHP
• How can I determine a web user’s time zone?

Answer 3

As mentioned by everyone PHP only displays server side time.

For client side, you would need Javascript, something like the following should do the trick.

 var currentTime = new Date()
  var hours = currentTime.getHours()
  var minutes = currentTime.getMinutes()

  if (minutes < 10)
  minutes = "0" + minutes

  document.write("<b>" + hours + ":" + minutes + " " + "</b>")

And if you want the AM/PM suffix, something like the following should work:

  var currentTime = new Date()
  var hours = currentTime.getHours()
  var minutes = currentTime.getMinutes()

  var suffix = "AM";
  if (hours >= 12) {
  suffix = "PM";
  hours = hours - 12;
  }
  if (hours == 0) {
  hours = 12;
  }

  if (minutes < 10)
  minutes = "0" + minutes

  document.write("<b>" + hours + ":" + minutes + " " + suffix + "</b>")

Here is a list of additional JS Date and Time functions you could mess around with: http://www.quackit.com/javascript/javascript_date_and_time_functions.cfm

Answer 4

Here's a "PHP" solution:

echo '<script type="text/javascript">
var x = new Date()
document.write(x)
</script>';

Answer 5

You could possibly use Geolocation by IP Address to work out which country the user is in, and then use that.

But using Javascript or letting the user choose a Timezone will probably be better.