How to capture time/date when message was send/button pressed [ Vanilla Javascript ]-CodePudding

Im working on a messaging app and i cant figure out how to capture time when SEND/Enter button was clicked and display it next to the message

Vanilla JS

Thank you!

CodePudding user response：

So are you trying to display the time the button was clicked, and display it to the sender / recipient in their local time?

If so, you should just be able to use the Date constructor like so:

const date = new Date();

That will give you the UTC time. To convert to local time, you can use the .toLocaleTimeString() method. This would log your local time in US format:

const date = new Date();
console.log(date.toLocaleTimeString('en-US'));

So what you could do is have an event listener on the button, and when the button is clicked, create a new date, and convert to local time.

const button = document.querySelector('button');
const par = document.querySelector('p')

button.addEventListener('click', () => {
    const date = new Date();
  const local = date.toLocaleTimeString('en-US');
  par.innerHTML = local
})

<button>
Click me
</button>

<p>
</p>

JSFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/f198wvdt/2/

Is this along the lines of what you're looking for?