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Clock dashboard

Ever wanted to show times from around the world? I am guessing no, but seen as the script is here you could use it anyway. The script creates a dishboard which runs accross the page with the time of several time zones on. Putting it at the bottom of the page it if is a liquid design looks great or even inside a table of a fixed width design.

This is another example of the useful scripts that can be found on JavaScriptSource. The top part needs to go into your pages head tag.

<HEAD>

<!-- Begin

var timerID ;

function tzone(tz, os, ds, cl)

{

this.ct = new Date(0) ; // datetime

this.tz = tz ; // code

this.os = os ; // GMT offset

this.ds = ds ; // has daylight savings

this.cl = cl ; // font color

}

function UpdateClocks()

{

// www.timeanddate.com/worldclock

var ct = new Array(

new tzone('SFO: ', -8, 1, 'lime'),

new tzone('TYO: ', +9, 0, 'violet'),

new tzone('HKG: ', +8, 0, 'cyan'),

new tzone('BKK: ', +7, 0, 'yellow'),

new tzone('NYC: ', -5, 1, '#FFAA00'),

new tzone('LON: ', 0, 1, 'silver'),

new tzone('SVO: ', +3, 0, 'pink'),

new tzone('KTM: ', +5.75, 0, 'red')

) ;

var dt = new Date() ; // [GMT] time according to machine clock

var startDST = new Date(dt.getFullYear(), 3, 1) ;

while (startDST.getDay() != 0)

startDST.setDate(startDST.getDate() + 1) ;

var endDST = new Date(dt.getFullYear(), 9, 31) ;

while (endDST.getDay() != 0)

endDST.setDate(endDST.getDate() - 1) ;

var ds_active ; // DS currently active

if (startDST < dt && dt < endDST)

ds_active = 1 ;

else

ds_active = 0 ;

// Adjust each clock offset if that clock has DS and in DS.

for(n=0 ; n<ct.length ; n++)

if (ct[n].ds == 1 && ds_active == 1) ct[n].os++ ;

// compensate time zones

gmdt = new Date() ;

for (n=0 ; n<ct.length ; n++)

ct[n].ct = new Date(gmdt.getTime() + ct[n].os * 3600 * 1000) ;

document.all.Clock0.innerHTML =

'' + ct[0].tz + ClockString(ct[0].ct) + '' ;

document.all.Clock1.innerHTML =

'' + ct[1].tz + ClockString(ct[1].ct) + '' ;

document.all.Clock2.innerHTML =

'' + ct[2].tz + ClockString(ct[2].ct) + '' ;

document.all.Clock3.innerHTML =

'' + ct[3].tz + ClockString(ct[3].ct) + '' ;

document.all.Clock4.innerHTML =

'' + ct[4].tz + ClockString(ct[4].ct) + '' ;

document.all.Clock5.innerHTML =

'' + ct[5].tz + ClockString(ct[5].ct) + '' ;

document.all.Clock6.innerHTML =

'' + ct[6].tz + ClockString(ct[6].ct) + '' ;

document.all.Clock7.innerHTML =

'' + ct[7].tz + ClockString(ct[7].ct) + '' ;

timerID = window.setTimeout("UpdateClocks()", 1001) ;

}

function ClockString(dt)

{

var stemp, ampm ;

var dt_year = dt.getUTCFullYear() ;

var dt_month = dt.getUTCMonth() + 1 ;

var dt_day = dt.getUTCDate() ;

var dt_hour = dt.getUTCHours() ;

var dt_minute = dt.getUTCMinutes() ;

var dt_second = dt.getUTCSeconds() ;

dt_year = dt_year.toString() ;

if (0 <= dt_hour && dt_hour < 12)

{

ampm = 'AM' ;

if (dt_hour == 0) dt_hour = 12 ;

} else {

ampm = 'PM' ;

dt_hour = dt_hour - 12 ;

if (dt_hour == 0) dt_hour = 12 ;

}

if (dt_minute < 10)

dt_minute = '0' + dt_minute ;

if (dt_second < 10)

dt_second = '0' + dt_second ;

stemp = dt_month + '/' + dt_day + '/' + dt_year.substr(2,2) ;

stemp = stemp + ' ' + dt_hour + ":" + dt_minute + ":" + dt_second + ' ' + ampm ;

return stemp ;

}

// End -->

</script>

</HEAD>

This is your body tag. You just need to add the onLoad bit.

The following code goes in the body of your page:

</tr>

</tr>

</table>

Free JavaScripts provided

by <a href="http://javascriptsource.com">The JavaScript Source</a>

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