# Need Date and Time Help

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-date-and-time-help/27543>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [August 3, 2003, 10:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-date-and-time-help/27543 "2003-08-03T22:01:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![emeX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a4c791/32.png) [@emeX](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/emeX)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 10:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-date-and-time-help/27543/1 "2003-08-03T22:01:06Z")

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How do i make the date and time if its less than 10 to display a zero in front so for example like four o six and and six seconds looks like this 04:06:06 instead of this 4:6:6. also how do you do this with a date i want a date have only 2 digits for the year and if the month and day are less than 10 to display a zero in front of them…

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-date-and-time-help/27543/2 "2003-08-03T22:49:41Z")

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Create a movie clip with 3 textfields inside and set their **variables** as:  
myhours  
myminutes  
myseconds

Now place the folllowing actions on the movie clip:[AS]onClipEvent (enterFrame) {  
myDate = new Date();  
hours = myDate.getHours();  
minutes = myDate.getMinutes();  
seconds = myDate.getSeconds();  
myhours = hours;  
myminutes = minutes;  
myseconds = seconds;  
(hours\<10) ? myhours=“0”+hours : myhours=hours;  
(minutes\<10) ? myminutes=“0”+minutes : myminutes=minutes;  
(seconds\<10) ? myseconds=“0”+seconds : myseconds=seconds;  
}[/AS]

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 10:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-date-and-time-help/27543/3 "2003-08-04T10:33:53Z")

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hmm, this could be compacted to this:

```auto
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
        var myDate = new Date();
        var hours = myDate.getHours();
        var minutes = myDate.getMinutes();
        var seconds = myDate.getSeconds();
        myhours = (hours<10) ? "0"+hours : hours;
        myminutes = (minutes<10) ? "0"+minutes : minutes;
        myseconds = (seconds<10) ? "0"+seconds : seconds;
}

```

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 1:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-date-and-time-help/27543/4 "2003-08-04T13:50:37Z")

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Awesome… thanks

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 2:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-date-and-time-help/27543/5 "2003-08-04T14:12:45Z")

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welcome 🙂