remoteTime.js
is a simple jQuery plugin that attaches a clock to a <div> or <span>. The plugin makes use of Google Maps' Geocode and Timezone APIs to show the time in the given location.
Usage
Include jQuery. Instantiate the pugin on your jQuery object like so...
$("#LATime").remoteTime({ key: "your API key", location: "Los Angeles, California", format: "m/d/y g:i:s a" }); Parameters
There are only 3 parameters, all passed as properties of a single object, all required.
keyA Google API key with both geocode and timezone services enabled.locationA string representing a location. Can be an address or zip code or just about anything. Google's best guess will be used, so less ambiguous locations (addresses) are preferred.formatA string representing the format to be used to display the time. See the Formatting section below.
Formatting
I wrote this function for some reason a while back that uses a subset of the PHP date shorthand to format a date string in Javascript the same way PHP does. A slightly modified version of this function is doing the formatting in this plugin.
The following characters are recognized in the format parameter string:
| format character | Description | Example returned values |
|---|---|---|
| Day | -- | -- |
| d | Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros | 01 to 31 |
| D | A textual representation of a day, three letters | Mon through Sun |
| j | Day of the month without leading zeros | 1 to 31 |
| l (lowercase 'L') | A full textual representation of the day of the week | Sunday through Saturday |
| S | English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters | st, nd, rd or th. Works well with j |
| w | Numeric representation of the day of the week | 0 (for Sunday) through 6 (for Saturday) |
| Month | -- | -- |
| F | A full textual representation of a month, such as January or March | January through December |
| m | Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros | 01 through 12 |
| M | A short textual representation of a month, three letters | Jan through Dec |
| n | Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros | 1 through 12 |
| Year | -- | -- |
| Y | A full numeric representation of a year, 4 digits | Examples: 1999 or 2003 |
| y | A two digit representation of a year | Examples: 99 or 03 |
| Time | -- | -- |
| a | Lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem | am or pm |
| A | Uppercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem | AM or PM |
| g | 12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros | 1 through 12 |
| G | 24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros | 0 through 23 |
| h | 12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros | 01 through 12 |
| H | 24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros | 00 through 23 |
| i | Minutes with leading zeros | 00 to 59 |
| s | Seconds, with leading zeros | 00 through 59 |
Unrecognized characters as well as characters immediately preceded by a \ in the format string will be printed as-is.
