jQuery getTime function
@nickf's correct. However, to be a little more precise:
// if you try to print it, it will return something like:// Sat Mar 21 2009 20:13:07 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)// This time comes from the user's machine.var myDate = new Date();So if you want to display it as mm/dd/yyyy, you would do this:
var displayDate = (myDate.getMonth()+1) + '/' + (myDate.getDate()) + '/' + myDate.getFullYear();Check out the full reference of the Date object. Unfortunately it is not nearly as nice to print out various formats as it is with other server-side languages. For this reason there-are-many-functions available in the wild.
You don't need jquery to do that, just javascript. For example, you can do a timer using this:
<body onload="clock();"><script type="text/javascript">function clock() { var now = new Date(); var outStr = now.getHours()+':'+now.getMinutes()+':'+now.getSeconds(); document.getElementById('clockDiv').innerHTML=outStr; setTimeout('clock()',1000);}clock();</script> <div id="clockDiv"></div></body>You can view a complete reference here: http://www.hunlock.com/blogs/Javascript_Dates-The_Complete_Reference