Hi, ant solutions to this would be great. I have a link which i need to display between 6am and 24:00. its an asp site. Thanks alot for any help

this seems like the wrong lpace to put it. but i was wondrin if i cud do this in html.

No it can't.

and 6am
Your time zone?

server time zone?

or

visitor time zone?

current date comes from dtmCurrentDate = FormatDateTime(rst("currentdate"),2)

need to come from server time

I think you could probably do this in Javascript, using the local time on the users PC

Like:

var d = new Date();
var curr_hour = d.getHours();
var curr_min = d.getMinutes();
document.write(curr_hour + " : " + curr_min);

would output eg. 19:33

If you wanted to do it using server time I think a server side script like PHP is your best bet, and it's really easy. You'd need something like

$today = date("H:i:s"); // 17:16:17

Hope this helps

Hi,

There is a time function, http://www.w3schools.com/vbscript/func_time.asp
And if statements, http://www.w3schools.com/vbscript/vb...nditionals.asp

So you should be able to combine these to control when the link is displayed.

Given this bit from the first post;

Originally Posted by ajm22386

its an asp site.

Originally Posted by Invictus

If you wanted to do it using server time I think a server side script like PHP is your best bet,
Hope this helps

It probably wont

if hour(now()) < 6 and hour(now()) > 0 then
     ' show whatever
end if

oops, I didn't see where he said about it being an ASP site, but anyhow, if it's ASP AJAX will still work...

look at this W3 Schools Tutorial

http://www.w3schools.com/Ajax/ajax_server.asp

Why would anyone resort to AJAX when it's so simple to do server side? What's the gain from crossing layers unnecessarily?

Originally Posted by chrishirst

if hour(now()) < 6 and hour(now()) > 0 then
     ' show whatever
end if

My dyslexia often gets the better of me too, LOL.

Given:

I have a link which i need to display between 6am and 24:00. its an asp site.

This should be:

if hour(now()) > 6
     ' show whatever
end if

Or

If Hour(Now())>6 Then Response.Write "<a>My Link</a>"

Good point, I managed to read it the opposite way around.

Originally Posted by Learning Newbie

Why would anyone resort to AJAX when it's so simple to do server side? What's the gain from crossing layers unnecessarily?

because the OP seemed to want to use JS rather than using server side stuff and AJAX allows you to use the minimum ASP script (admittedly it does require a fair bit of extra JS though).

If he's happy using ASP instead I agree it could be done very easily.

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