Tips & Tricks 5: Display digital time

For today’s trick I will show how you can display digital time in Flash.

1. Using the Text Tool(T) create 3 Textboxes(hours, minutes, seconds).

2. Give each one a name in the Var field of the Properties Panel.(for this example I use h – hours, m – minutes, s – seconds).

3. Write the following Actionscript code:

var dt
var timeint;

date = new Date();
h = date.getHours();
m = date.getMinutes();
s = date.getSeconds();
timeint = setInterval(displayZ, 1000);

function displayZ() {
   date = new Date();
   h = date.getHours();
   m = date.getMinutes();
   s = date.getSeconds();
   if (h<10) {
      h = "0"+h;
   }
   if (m<10) {
      m = "0"+m;
   }
   if (s<10) {
      s = "0"+s;
   }
}

4. If you want to display GMT Time(the example above uses Local Time) replace getHours() with getUTCHours, getMinutes() with getUTCMinutes() and getSeconds() with getUTCSeconds().

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