# Time Display....!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/time-display/279871>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 20, 2009, 5:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/time-display/279871 "2009-01-20T05:16:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![enzyme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b19c9b/32.png) [@enzyme](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/enzyme)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 5:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/time-display/279871/1 "2009-01-20T05:16:12Z")

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i have used the following script to display time on my web site, since recently i noticed that the time isn’t getting updated, but showing the right system time on refresh… pls help i am attaching the script herewith for reference…

thank u…!

stop();

function howlong(arg) {  
if (length(arg)==1) {  
arg = “0” + arg;  
return arg;  
}  
else {  
arg = arg;  
return arg;  
}  
}  
myDate = new Date();

hr = howlong(String(myDate.getHours()));  
mnt = howlong(String(myDate.getMinutes()));

daytext = myDate.getDay();  
dd = myDate.getDate();  
mm = myDate.getMonth();  
yyyy = myDate.getFullYear();

switch (daytext) {  
case 0: daytext = “Sun”;  
break;  
case 1: daytext = “Mon”;  
break;  
case 2: daytext = “Tue”;  
break;  
case 3: daytext = “Wed”;  
break;  
case 4: daytext = “Thu”;  
break   
case 5: daytext = “Fri”;  
break;  
case 6: daytext = “Sat”;  
break  
}

switch (mm) {  
case 0: mm = “Jan”;  
break;  
case 1: mm = “Feb”;  
break;  
case 2: mm = “Mar”;  
break;  
case 3: mm = “April”;  
break;  
case 4: mm = “May”;  
break   
case 5: mm = “June”;  
break;  
case 6: mm = “July”;  
break  
case 7: mm = “Aug”;  
break  
case 8: mm = “Sept”;  
break  
case 9: mm = “Oct”;  
break  
case 10: mm = “Nov”;  
break  
case 11: mm = “Dec”;  
break  
}

textdate = (hr + “:” + mnt + " - " + daytext + “,” + dd + " " + mm + " " + yyyy)