Posted by Toby Inkster on 11/24/46 11:45

Captain Dondo wrote:

> Given these limitations, is there a way to show a real-time, ticking
> clock?

Ah -- only just read that.

If you can afford to be a handful of seconds inaccurate, you could use PHP
to generate some Javascript like:

<script type="text/javascript">

var servertime = new Date('<?= htmlentities(date('r')) ?>');
var clienttime = new Date();
var timeoffset = servertime - clienttime;

function alertDate ()
{
var d = new Date();
d += timeoffset;
window.alert('The server date is ' + d.toString());
}

var annoyance = window.setInterval('alertDate', 20000);

</script>

That's not been tested, so it may have one or two syntax errors, but it
should give you an idea about how to proceed.

(I felt I owed you a good answer after my previous rubbish one!)

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