I have a Javascript in which I need to paste the current time in a format HH:MM AM/PM. There\'s one catch - I need to put the time that starts in two hours from now, so for
You can convert the current time to 12 hour format with a one liner
new Date().toLocaleTimeString('en-US', { hour: 'numeric', hour12: true, minute: 'numeric' });
And to add two hours to your current time
Date.now() + 2 * 60 * 60 * 1000
So you can do it in a simple one line as:
new Date(Date.now() + 2 * 60 * 60 * 1000).toLocaleTimeString('en-US', { hour: 'numeric', hour12: true, minute: 'numeric' });
Use Date
methods to set and retrieve time and construct a time string, something along the lines of the snippet.
[edit] Just for fun: added a more generic approach, using 2 Date.prototype
extensions.
var now = new Date();
now.setHours(now.getHours()+2);
var isPM = now.getHours() >= 12;
var isMidday = now.getHours() == 12;
var result = document.querySelector('#result');
var time = [now.getHours() - (isPM && !isMidday ? 12 : 0),
now.getMinutes(),
now.getSeconds() || '00'].join(':') +
(isPM ? ' pm' : 'am');
result.innerHTML = 'the current time plus two hours = '+ time;
// a more generic approach: extend Date
Date.prototype.addTime = addTime;
Date.prototype.showTime = showTime;
result.innerHTML += '<h4>using Date.prototype extensions</h4>';
result.innerHTML += 'the current time plus twenty minutes = '+
new Date().addTime({minutes: 20}).showTime();
result.innerHTML += '<br>the current time plus one hour and twenty minutes = '+
new Date().addTime({hours: 1, minutes: 20}).showTime();
result.innerHTML += '<br>the current time <i>minus</i> two hours (format military) = '+
new Date().addTime({hours: -2}).showTime(true);
result.innerHTML += '<br>the current time plus ten minutes (format military) = '+
new Date().addTime({minutes: 10}).showTime(true);
function addTime(values) {
for (var l in values) {
var unit = l.substr(0,1).toUpperCase() + l.substr(1);
this['set' + unit](this['get' + unit]() + values[l]);
}
return this;
}
function showTime(military) {
var zeroPad = function () {
return this < 10 ? '0' + this : this;
};
if (military) {
return [ zeroPad.call(this.getHours()),
zeroPad.call(this.getMinutes()),
zeroPad.call(this.getSeconds()) ].join(':');
}
var isPM = this.getHours() >= 12;
var isMidday = this.getHours() == 12;
return time = [ zeroPad.call(this.getHours() - (isPM && !isMidday ? 12 : 0)),
zeroPad.call(this.getMinutes()),
zeroPad.call(this.getSeconds()) ].join(':') +
(isPM ? ' pm' : ' am');
}
<div id="result"></div>
Simply, you can do this
const date = new Date()
const options = {
hour: 'numeric',
minute: 'numeric',
hour12: true
};
const time = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', options).format(date)
console.log(time)
For more details, you can refer to the MDN docs regarding the same.
Note that the accepted answer, while good, does not appear to meet the format requirement of: HH:MM AM/PM. It returns midnight as "0:0:38am" and so forth.
There are many ways one could do this and one alternative is shown below. Click the "Run Code Snippet" to test.
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>Clock</title>
</head>
<body>
<span id="clock" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 48px; background-color: black; color: lime; padding: 10px;">00:00:00 AM</span>
<script type="text/javascript">
function getTime( ) {
var d = new Date( );
d.setHours( d.getHours() + 2 ); // offset from local time
var h = (d.getHours() % 12) || 12; // show midnight & noon as 12
return (
( h < 10 ? '0' : '') + h +
( d.getMinutes() < 10 ? ':0' : ':') + d.getMinutes() +
// optional seconds display
// ( d.getSeconds() < 10 ? ':0' : ':') + d.getSeconds() +
( d.getHours() < 12 ? ' AM' : ' PM' )
);
}
var clock = document.getElementById('clock');
setInterval( function() { clock.innerHTML = getTime(); }, 1000 );
</script>
</body>
</html>