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- Tue Nov 03, 2015 1:55 am #32901 Hello Community!

I have embarked on the following project "SETTING A RANGE (SLIDER) VALUE (ARDUINO IDE)" (http://www.esp8266.com/viewtopic.php?p=20544).

I have the NodeMCU Amica with ASP8266 (http://www.electrodragon.com/product/nodemcu-lua-amica-r2-esp8266-wifi-board/). I was wondering if someone could point me to example code to display the time from the clock onto the web page?

I have scoured the internet and wasn't able to find any information. I am trying to display the time on the website and have it activly sync without refreshing the whole page. Any help or links to help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

- Tue Nov 03, 2015 3:10 pm #32952 So digging a little deeper about this I have found the Arduino Time library (#include <Time.h>):

Functional Overview

hour(); // The hour now (0-23)
minute(); // The minute now (0-59)
second(); // The second now (0-59)
day(); // The day now (1-31)
weekday(); // Day of the week, Sunday is day 1
month(); // The month now (1-12)
year(); // The full four digit year: (2009,
// 2010 etc)

there are also functions to return the hour in 12 hour format

hourFormat12(); // The hour now in 12 hour format
isAM(); // Returns true if time now is AM
isPM(); // Returns true if time now is PM
now(); // Returns the current time as seconds
// since Jan 1 1970

http://playground.arduino.cc/code/time

This does a pretty thorough job of talking about time and was what I was looking for.

As a side note I did find an article about synicing the clock with an online source on instructables (http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-Internet-Time-Client/?ALLSTEPS).

My next project is to have the Arduino IDE is to display this time on the website