Storing Client Date/Time

**bigalo** · 11-04-2009, 05:37 PM

Hello,

I hope someone can help. I know on the front end using js you can get the date and time on client machine and store in a hidden field so it can be grabbed to use on the back-end to store in a database or even return a special message based on their time. However, I'm not too sure how to begin. Would anyone happen to have any idea on how to do this?

Thanks in advanced!

**vwphillips** · 11-05-2009, 03:59 PM

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
  <title></title>
<script  type="text/javascript">
/*<![CDATA[*/
function Format(nu){
 return nu>9?nu:'0'+nu;
}
function Time(){
 var today=new Date();
 var year=today.getFullYear();
 var month=Format(today.getMonth()+1);
 var date=Format(today.getDate());
 var hour=Format(today.getHours());
 var minutes=Format(today.getMinutes());
 var seconds=Format(today.getDate());
 document.forms[0].ClientTime.value=year+'-'+month+'-'+date+'-'+hour+'-'+minutes+'-'+seconds;
}
/*]]>*/
</script></head>

<body>
<form>
<input name="ClientTime" size="42"/>
</form>
<script  type="text/javascript">
/*<![CDATA[*/
Time();
/*]]>*/
</script>

</body>

</html>

**bigalo** · 11-05-2009, 04:32 PM

Thanks so much Vic! this is exactly what I was looking for!

Cheers!

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