ServerDate to JavaScript

Emery Wooten Jul 12, 2005

Transfer your server date/time to JavaScript without using Server Side Includes or renaming the page with a .php extension. This script lets you control the initial date/time used by your scripts and makes them independent of the user's local time. Uses JavaScript and PHP.

The JavaScript Source: Time and Date: ServerDate to JavaScript

Simply click inside the window below, use your cursor to highlight the script, and copy (type Control-c or Apple-c) the script into a new file in your text editor (such as Note Pad or Simple Text) and save (Control-s or Command-s). The script is yours!!!

<!-- THREE STEPS TO INSTALL SERVERDATE TO JAVASCRIPT:

1.  Save the code in a file called "servertime.php"
  2.  Copy the coding into the HEAD of your HTML document
  3.  Add the last code into the BODY of your HTML document  -->

<?php

/* Copyright 2005 Emery Wooten - www.mresoftware.com
 This script is called from Javascript. It should be called before any
 JavaScripts that use the date.
 Place the statement below in the <head> section of your HTML page:
 <script type="text/javascript" src="servertime.php"></script>
*/

// Supress errors
error_reporting(0);

/* If your server is not in your time zone, adjust it here.  Mine is 1 hour East of me.
To use this variable, you will need to remove the "//".
// $myServerOffset = (+1) * 3600;

// Get server date
$mydate = date("U");

// Get Timezone offset
$myoffs = date("Z") - $myServerOffset;

// Adjust offsets for local machine
print "var tzoffset = $myoffs + (new Date().getTimezoneOffset()*60);";

// Set JavaScript variable to your server time as seen from client machine's location.
print "var servertimeOBJ=new Date(($mydate+tzoffset)*1000);";
?>

<HEAD>

// First thing, reference the variable.
var servertimeOBJ;

// Now check that it is set
if (servertimeOBJ != null){
	var myscriptTime = servertimeOBJ;
}

// If server time not passed, use client's time
else{
	var myscriptTime = new Date();
}

/* "myscriptTime" is a variable local to this script. Name it as you wish.
 After the above code is executed, this local variable is used for all date/time
 calculations performed by the script. If all works, this variable
 contains the server date as a proper JavaScript date object. */

// End -->
</script>

</HEAD>

<BODY>

<p><center>
<font face="arial, helvetica" size"-2">Free JavaScripts provided<br>
by <a href="http://javascriptsource.com">The JavaScript Source</a></font>
</center><p>

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