There are two problems with this approach.
Firstly, date() does not account for user timezones. You could use Drupal's format_date() function instead. It works similarly. http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes--common.inc/function/format_date
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 http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1557-javascript-makes-relative-times-compatib... this example, I'd recommend using HTML 5 data attributes. See http://ejohn.org/blog/html-5-data-attributes/ for more information.)
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On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Cory Gilliam imaaxa@gmail.com wrote:
Hey Jim,
If you want it hard coded into the site add this line to your page.tpl.php for your theme:
<?php print date('l, F j, Y g:i a T') ?>
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 http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php 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:
<div id="myTimeAndDate" class="myTimeAndDate"> <?php print date('l, F j, Y g:i a T') ?> </div>
Hope this helps, Cory
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Jim Ruby jim@v-community.com wrote:
I would like to display current date and time, what would be the best way to do this in drupal 7? I would like to display either the local time pst or the users that is visiting their local time. These would be anonymous visitors.
Thanks.
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