There are times when you might like to display server time on your web page, maybe even during development. This is the JavaScript that you can use to do just this.
Add the JavaScript to a file called serverTime.js.
var xmlHttp;
function srvTime(){
try {
//FF, Opera, Safari, Chrome
xmlHttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
}
catch (err1) {
//IE
try {
xmlHttp = new ActiveXObject('Msxml2.XMLHTTP');
}
catch (err2) {
try {
xmlHttp = new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLHTTP');
}
catch (eerr3) {
//AJAX not supported, use CPU time.
alert("AJAX not supported");
}
}
}
xmlHttp.open('HEAD',window.location.href.toString(),false);
xmlHttp.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "text/html");
xmlHttp.send('');
return xmlHttp.getResponseHeader("Date");
}
var st = srvTime();
var date = new Date(st);
Here is the HTML.
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Server date/time</title>
<script language="javascript" src="serverTime.js"></script>
</head>
<script language="javascript">
var localTime = new Date();
document.write("Local machine time is: " + localTime + "<br>");
document.write("Server time is: " + date);
</script>
<body>
</body>
Conclusion
It took some time to find this information so hopefully, this helps you. Let us know if you have any questions or share how you are using this code in your project.
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