crossbrowser date and time

tpeck

08-31-2006, 02:02 AM

Hi. This works correctly in IE, but the year won't show in Firefox:

var date;
var day_array = new Array("Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday");
var month_array = new Array("January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December");
function show_time()
{
date = new Date();
day = day_array[date.getDay()];
maand = month_array[date.getMonth()];
yand = date.getFullYear();
minutes = date.getMinutes();
seconds = date.getSeconds();
if (minutes < 10 ) {minutes = "0" + minutes;}
if (seconds < 10) {seconds = "0" + seconds;}
obj_table_time = document.getElementById("table_time");
obj_table_time.innerHTML = day + " "+date.getDate()+" " + maand + " " + yand + " "+date.getHours() + ":" + minutes +":" + seconds;
setTimeout("show_time()",1000);
}

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That variable yand doesn't do anything in Mozilla.

Does anyone have any idea why?

Thanks

tpeck

08-31-2006, 02:07 AM

and here's another very weird thing that might be a bug in this forum(???).

See the space in the word "Novem ber".

I didn't post a space - and I double checked that I didn't post that space!

Strange...

_Aerospace_Eng_

08-31-2006, 02:28 AM

You were using date as a variable. Firefox didn't like that because Date is reserved word. This works and it uses DOM to put the time in.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
var day_array = new Array("Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday");
var month_array = new Array("January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December");
function show_time()
{
var thedate = new Date();
var day = day_array[thedate.getDay()];
var maand = month_array[thedate.getMonth()];
var yand = thedate.getFullYear();
var minutes = thedate.getMinutes();
var seconds = thedate.getSeconds();
if (minutes < 10 ) {minutes = "0" + minutes;}
if (seconds < 10) {seconds = "0" + seconds;}
var obj_table_time = document.getElementById("table_time");
obj_table_time.firstChild.nodeValue = day + " "+thedate.getDate()+" " + maand + " " + yand + " "+thedate.getHours() + ":" + minutes +":" + seconds;
}
window.onload = function()
{
show_time();
setInterval("show_time()",1000);
}
</script>
</head>

<body>
<div id="table_time"> </div>
</body>
</html>

jmrker

08-31-2006, 02:37 AM

_Aerospace_Eng_:
You may be right, :o but I can get the original script to work in FF and IE with only the following change: :confused:
<body onLoad="show_time()">
I think 'date' and 'Date' are different to all javascript. :)

_Aerospace_Eng_

08-31-2006, 02:55 AM

_Aerospace_Eng_:
You may be right, :o but I can get the original script to work in FF and IE with only the following change: :confused:
I think 'date' and 'Date' are different to all javascript. :)
Hmm not sure why the year didn't work then though it doesn't hurt to not use variables that have a reserved word in JS.

tpeck

08-31-2006, 01:38 PM

I was using the body onload method, but the year wouldn't show in Firefox. (Everything else did). The whole thing displays if I change "date" to "thedate", so that'll do me.

Thanks a lot.

Still don't know about that interloping space in my first post! I reckon that sort of thing happens a lot in Outlook too. I type something, read it, send it, and... a single character will sometimes just vanish! Of course, it could be early senility. But that space before proves I'm not mad just yet.