Update a variable with the current date and time

In JavaScript you can create date & time objects using the Date constructor. Then object can use its own methods for different computations afterward.

There are number of ways in which you can create the date object via Date constructor.

Example

var today_date_time = new Date();                         // Get today's date and time
var old_date = new Date(2010, 4, 1);                       // Date Literal
var old_date_time = new Date(2010, 0, 1, 18, 10, 30);   // Date literal + time
var elapsed = today_date_time - old_date ;            // Get the interval after subtraction in milliseconds
      
      // Methodsold_date.getFullYear()  // get year
old_date.getMonth()     // get month number (starting from zero)
old_date.getDate()        // get day
old_date.getDay()          // get day of week (0-6) Starting from Sunday: 0
old_date.getHours()      // get local time
old_date.getUTCHours()   // get time in UTC

See working example at:

http://www.thesstech.com/javascript/date-time

Thanks Sohail for sharing that here and providing some code for folks to use. 

Huge help, thank you!

Glad to see that this thread was able to assist you as well Jill :) 

Hello David,

could you tell me how the time code works for Germany? We Count 24 Hours a day without AM or PM.

Thank you very much.

Hi Martin,

I'm not sure if David is still subscribed here as I saw he also didn't answer Jacqui's similar question. I don't know much (or anything really!) about Javascript code, so I hope someone here in the community can pop in to assist. You could also try using the "contact me" button on a ELH users' profile to reach out to them directly for advice! Best of luck with your project! 

Glad that worked, Martin! 

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Hi Michael,

could you post the code. I use SL3 and cannot open the project file. 

Thanks again

Martin

Hi Martin,

No worries, I opened the file shared above and switched from the Modern Player to Classic Player and you can open this file in SL3 now :)

hi everyone,

any chance to get hep on how to delay quiz attempts with x hours?

more exactly I am looking to add x hours between the current date/time (of the 1st attempt) and the next attempt.

thank you,

Ionut