To make it easy to handle date and time, JavaScript has a built in Date object.

A Date
variable has to be created explicitly before we can use it. This can be done using the
following JavaScript statement.
dateVar = new Date();
This creates a variable called dateVar and initializes it to contain the curent date and
time. If you want to initialize it with some other date and time, you can use any of the
following alternate syntaxes.
dateVar = new Date("month day, year hours:minutes:seconds")
dateVar = new Date(year, month, day)
dateVar = new Date(year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds)
Methods of the Date Object
The most commonly used methods of Date are given below. For a complete listing,
refer to Netscape's JavaScript Documentation.
getYear()
dateVar.getYear() returns a number like 96 corresponding to the year of
dateVar.
getMonth()
Returns a number between 0 and 11 corresponding to months January to
December.
getDate()
Returns the day of the month.
getDay()
Returns a number specifying the day of the week. Zero is for Sunday, one for
Monday and so on.
getHours()
Returns a number between 0 and 23 specifying the hour of day.
You might have come across sites that wish you a Good morning or a Good evening
depending on the time you visit it. This can b e achieved by checking the current time
and inserting the appropriate greeting using the document.write() function. The
following code does just that. You can insert it into an HTML file at the point you wish
the greeting to appear.
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!-- Hide this code from non JavaScript browsers
currentTime = new Date();
if (currentTime.getHours() < 12)
document.write("Good morning");
else if (currentTime.getHours() < 17)
document.write("Good afternoon");
else document.write("Good evening");
// End of JavaScript code -->
</SCRIPT>
A Digital Clock
Here is a clock program written in JavaScript.
Wed Oct 16 2013 22:28:01 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)
The source code for it is given below.
<TABLE BORDER=4 BGCOLOR=CYAN>
<TR><TD>
<FORM NAME="clock_form">
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="clock" SIZE=26>
</FORM>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!-- Hide from non JavaScript browsers
function clockTick()
{
currentTime = new Date();
document.clock_form.clock.value = " "+currentTime;
document.clock_form.clock.blur();
setTimeout("clockTick()", 1000);
}
clockTick();
// End of clock -->
</SCRIPT>
</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
The setTimeout() function is discussed in more detail on the Scroller page. The
blur() method is used to remove focus from the Clock textbox.
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