Small test required

homeap5 · June 7, 2022

Hi everyone (after long time of inactivity, just for one more post)

I need small help from someone that lives in different timezone than mine (I'm from Europe, UTC+2).

If anyone can tell me if the time displayed here:

http://www.thrash.pl/helptime.html

is the same as your time.

If you're living outside Europe, you should see different time and that is what I want to achieve (to show my local time for everyone, no matter what timezone someone lives). But I can't test it myself.

I know how to do it in php (that's easy), but if I am not so good in js.

Vishera · June 7, 2022

It works,it shows the correct time.

homeap5 · June 7, 2022

3 minutes ago, Vishera said:

It works,it shows the correct time.

It supposed to show WRONG time. I mean - it supposed to show MY time (UTC+2).

If you're living in US for example, this should show you 10:00 right now, not your time.

suedseefrucht · June 7, 2022

You use JavaScript. JavaScript runs in the people's browser. So the time will be their's.
If you want your server's time, use PHP for example.

The browser doesn't get your server's time. It gets this code:

<html><head><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<style>
#dimmm{transition: all 3s linear;display:block;width:100%;background-color:#FFFFFF;opacity:0;text-align:center}
</style>
</head><body style='background-color:#FFFFFF' onLoad='javascript:showme();'>
<div id='dimmm'>
<br><center>
<div id="txt" style="border-style:none;display:inline-block;margin:10px;color:#000000;font-family:Courier New;font-size:20px;line-height:30px;font-weight:bold;width:300px;height:80px;text-align:center"></div>
&nbsp;
</div>
<script type='text/javascript'>
function showme(){
document.getElementById("dimmm").style.opacity = "1";
}

function startTime() {



offset=2;

    d = new Date();

    utc = d.getTime() + (d.getTimezoneOffset() * 60000);

    nd = new Date(utc + (3600000*offset));

aa1=nd.getHours();
aa2=nd.getMinutes();
if (aa2 < 10)  aa2 = '0'+aa2;
aa3=nd.getSeconds();
 if (aa3 < 10)  aa3 = '0'+aa3;


    document.getElementById('txt').innerHTML =
    "now it's " + aa1 + ":"+ aa2 + ":" +aa3 + " here";


    var t = setTimeout(startTime, 500);
}
function checkTime(i) {
    if (i < 10) {i = "0" + i};  // add zero in front of numbers < 10
    return i;
}
startTime();
</script>
</body></html>

So the new Date runs in the browser.

PHP doesn't send it's code. The code, the browser receives will not contain the PHP code. I will just contain the stuff you write by "echo".

If you want to use JavaScript really bad, you can use it to call a website, which shows the time and extract the time string from there.

homeap5 · June 7, 2022

49 minutes ago, suedseefrucht said:

You use JavaScript. JavaScript runs in the people's browser. So the time will be their's.
If you want your server's time, use PHP for example.

The browser doesn't get your server's time. It gets this code:

<html><head><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<style>
#dimmm{transition: all 3s linear;display:block;width:100%;background-color:#FFFFFF;opacity:0;text-align:center}
</style>
</head><body style='background-color:#FFFFFF' onLoad='javascript:showme();'>
<div id='dimmm'>
<br><center>
<div id="txt" style="border-style:none;display:inline-block;margin:10px;color:#000000;font-family:Courier New;font-size:20px;line-height:30px;font-weight:bold;width:300px;height:80px;text-align:center"></div>
&nbsp;
</div>
<script type='text/javascript'>
function showme(){
document.getElementById("dimmm").style.opacity = "1";
}

function startTime() {



offset=2;

    d = new Date();

    utc = d.getTime() + (d.getTimezoneOffset() * 60000);

    nd = new Date(utc + (3600000*offset));

aa1=nd.getHours();
aa2=nd.getMinutes();
if (aa2 < 10)  aa2 = '0'+aa2;
aa3=nd.getSeconds();
 if (aa3 < 10)  aa3 = '0'+aa3;


    document.getElementById('txt').innerHTML =
    "now it's " + aa1 + ":"+ aa2 + ":" +aa3 + " here";


    var t = setTimeout(startTime, 500);
}
function checkTime(i) {
    if (i < 10) {i = "0" + i};  // add zero in front of numbers < 10
    return i;
}
startTime();
</script>
</body></html>

So the new Date runs in the browser.

PHP doesn't send it's code. The code, the browser receives will not contain the PHP code. I will just contain the stuff you write by "echo".

If you want to use JavaScript really bad, you can use it to call a website, which shows the time and extract the time string from there.

This code (it's not mine) supposed to be timezone independent, that is getTimezoneOffset for.

EDIT: Finally I found my friend online who lives in different timezone and he confirm that it working (shows my time instead of his).