There are two problems with this approach.<div><br></div><div>Firstly, date() does not account for user timezones. You could use Drupal's format_date() function instead. It works similarly. <a href="http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes--common.inc/function/format_date">http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes--common.inc/function/format_date</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Secondly, this is incompatible with caching. You could use JavaScript to get around this problem. On a somewhat related note, you can also use JavaScript to show relative date information, similar to this approach <a href="http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1557-javascript-makes-relative-times-compatible-with-caching">http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1557-javascript-makes-relative-times-compatible-with-caching</a> (In this example, I'd recommend using HTML 5 data attributes. See <a href="http://ejohn.org/blog/html-5-data-attributes/">http://ejohn.org/blog/html-5-data-attributes/</a> for more information.)</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Cory Gilliam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:imaaxa@gmail.com">imaaxa@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hey Jim,<br><br>If you want it hard coded into the site add this line to your page.tpl.php for your theme:<br><br><?php print date('l, F j, Y g:i a T') ?><br><br>This will print the date time like: Sunday September 18, 2011 5:15 am EST. If you want to tweek the way the time and date display, go to <a href="http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php" target="_blank">http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php</a> for a list of date / time parts and examples. So you can theme the date and time, you can wrap this in html tags like so:<br>
<br><div id="myTimeAndDate" class="myTimeAndDate"><br> <?php print date('l, F j, Y g:i a T') ?><br></div><br><br>Hope this helps,<br>Cory<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Jim Ruby <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim@v-community.com" target="_blank">jim@v-community.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I would like to display current date and time, what would be the best way to<br>
do this in drupal 7? I would like to display either the local time pst or<br>
the users that is visiting their local time. These would be anonymous<br>
visitors.<br>
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