ADD DATE AND TIME TO YOUR WEB PAGES

If you want to create a custom format for displaying a date string, the easiest way to do so is to create a new Date object and get the individual pieces to put a string together, as in the previous examples. JavaScript also includes methods to create a string in a standard format, such as toString(), which returns the date as a string, for example:

var myTime = new Date ();
var newTime = myTime.toString();
document.write (newTime);

This displays the current date and time as a string, such as:

Sun Sep 14 03:06:30 MDT 2003

Another method is toUTCString(), which returns the date as a UTC string. If you change the above string to:

var newTime = myTime.toUTCString();

This displays the current date and time as a UTC string, such as:

Sun, 14 Sep 2003 09:06:30 UTC