Print the client pc date and time using php

Question

I am facing the problem. How to print the local machine data and time on my php page using php. I did try a lot but no positive response. If there is possibility to print the local computer data and time then please give me suggestion.

Thanks in advance.

You can't. PHP runs on the server, so it never has visibility of the client machine - unless you send it the data via JS,a form, or some other method - in which case it is trivial as you already have it. — Fluffeh, May 17 '14 at 05:51
Possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2705067/how-can-i-get-the-users-local-time-instead-of-the-servers-time — 웃웃웃웃웃, May 17 '14 at 05:52

Praveen Kumar Purushothaman · Answer 1 · 2014-05-17T05:57:17.737

One thing I would do is, fire a call asynchronously from the client, using JavaScript. Say something like this:

<form method="post" action="settime.php" id="timeForm">
  <input type="hidden" id="localTime" name="localTime" />
</form>

And in the JavaScript:

document.getElementById("localTime").value =
        (new Date()).getDate() + "/" +
        (new Date()).getMonth() + "/" +
        (new Date()).getYear() + " " +
        (new Date()).getHours() + ":" +
        (new Date()).getMinutes() + ":" +
        (new Date()).getSeconds();
document.getElementById("timeForm").submit();

In the server side, you need to do something like this:

<?php
  $localTime = strtotime($_POST["localTime"]);
  // Do something with PHP
?>

Print the client pc date and time using php

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