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JavaScript: Display the current day and time in a specific format

JavaScript Basic: Exercise-1 with Solution

Write a JavaScript program to display the current day and time in the following format.
Today is : Tuesday.
Current time is : 10 PM : 30 : 38

Pictorial Presentation:

JavaScript: Display the current day and time in a specific format

Sample Solution:

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
  <html>
  <head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>JavaScript current day and time</title>
  </head>
  <body></body>
</html>

JavaScript Code:

var today = new Date();
  var day = today.getDay();
  var daylist = ["Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday ","Thursday","Friday","Saturday"];
  console.log("Today is : " + daylist[day] + ".");
  var hour = today.getHours();
  var minute = today.getMinutes();
  var second = today.getSeconds();
  var prepand = (hour >= 12)? " PM ":" AM ";
  hour = (hour >= 12)? hour - 12: hour;
  if (hour===0 && prepand===' PM ') 
  { 
  if (minute===0 && second===0)
  { 
  hour=12;
  prepand=' Noon';
  } 
  else
  { 
  hour=12;
  prepand=' PM';
  } 
  } 
  if (hour===0 && prepand===' AM ') 
  { 
  if (minute===0 && second===0)
  { 
  hour=12;
  prepand=' Midnight';
  } 
  else
  { 
  hour=12;
  prepand=' AM';
  } 
  } 
console.log("Current Time : "+hour + prepand + " : " + minute + " : " + second);

Sample Output:

Today is : Tuesday.
Current Time : 10 PM  : 30 : 38

Explanations:

Declaring a JavaScript date : In JavaScript Date objects are based on a time value that is the number of milliseconds since 1 January, 1970 UTC. You can declare a date in the following ways :

new Date();
new Date(value);
new Date(dateString);
new Date(year, month[, day[, hour[, minutes[, seconds[, milliseconds]]]]]);

The getDay() method is used to get the day of the week for the specified date according to local time, where 0 represents Sunday. The value returned by getDay() is an integer corresponding to the day of the week: 0 for Sunday, 1 for Monday, 2 for Tuesday, and so on.

The getHours() method is used to get the hour for a given date, according to local time. The value returned by getHours() is an integer between 0 and 23.

The getMinutes() method is used to get the minutes in the specified date according to local time. The value returned by getMinutes() is an integer between 0 and 59.

The getSeconds() method is used to get the seconds in the specified date according to local time. The value returned by getSeconds() is an integer between 0 and 59.

AM and PM : AM stands for 'ante meridiem', which means 'before noon' in Latin, while PM stands for 'post meridiem', which means 'after noon' in Latin.
12-Hour Periods : Nowadays most clocks are 12-hour clocks – they divide the 24 hours in a day into two 12-hour periods.
Ante meridiem: Before noon - Between midnight (0:00) & noon (12:00)
Post meridiem: After noon Between noon (12:00) & midnight (0:00)

Flowchart:

Flowchart: JavaScript - display the current day and time in a specific format

ES6 Version:

const today = new Date();
  const day = today.getDay();
  const daylist = ["Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday ","Thursday","Friday","Saturday"];
  console.log(`Today is : ${daylist[day]}.`);
  let hour = today.getHours();
  const minute = today.getMinutes();
  const second = today.getSeconds();
  let prepand = (hour >= 12)? " PM ":" AM ";
  hour = (hour >= 12)? hour - 12: hour;
  if (hour===0 && prepand===' PM ') 
  { 
  if (minute===0 && second===0)
  { 
  hour=12;
  prepand=' Noon';
  } 
  else
  { 
  hour=12;
  prepand=' PM';
  } 
  } 
  if (hour===0 && prepand===' AM ') 
  { 
  if (minute===0 && second===0)
  { 
  hour=12;
  prepand=' Midnight';
  } 
  else
  { 
  hour=12;
  prepand=' AM';
  } 
  } 
console.log(`Current Time : ${hour}${prepand} : ${minute} : ${second}`);

Live Demo:

See the Pen JavaScript current day and time - basic-ex-2 by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.


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Randomizes the order of the values of an array, returning a new array

Example:

const tips_shuffle = ([...arr]) => {
  let x = arr.length;
  while (x) {
    const i = Math.floor(Math.random() * x--);
    [arr[x], arr[i]] = [arr[i], arr[x]];
  }
  return arr;
};
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Output:

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