I am not forgetting about you, but I have some things to do this evening, i will play with this later.

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i have found a simple javascript clock that seems to work, however its time is gathered from the users computer. how can i adjust it to grab the time from the server instead? this may be easier to answer, if not forget i even mentioned it!

code;

<div id="js_clock" class="clock">
<script language="javascript">
function js_clock(){
var clock_time = new Date();
var clock_hours = clock_time.getHours();
var clock_minutes = clock_time.getMinutes();
var clock_seconds = clock_time.getSeconds();
var clock_suffix = "AM";

if (clock_hours > 11){clock_suffix = "PM";clock_hours = clock_hours - 12;}
if (clock_hours == 0){clock_hours = 12;}
if (clock_hours < 10){clock_hours = clock_hours;}
if (clock_minutes < 10){clock_minutes = "0" + clock_minutes;}
if (clock_seconds < 10){clock_seconds = "0" + clock_seconds;}

var clock_div = document.getElementById('js_clock');clock_div.inne rHTML = clock_hours + ":" + clock_minutes + ":" + clock_seconds + " " + clock_suffix;setTimeout("js_clock()", 1000);}js_clock();</script></div>

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You need to understand that since javascript is Client Side technology, when you call: new Date() it takes the time and date from the users PC, not the server since the script is running on the client, not the server.

However, you can meld these 2 scripts together. Keep the code in your most recent post add this to the top of the page:
<%@ LANGUAGE="JavaScript" %>
<%
/*** Clock -- beginning of server-side support code
by Andrew Shearer, http://www.shearersoftware.com/
v2.1-ASP, 2002-10-12. For updates and explanations, see
<http://www.shearersoftware.com/software/web-tools/clock/>. ***/

/* Prevent this page from being cached (though some browsers still
   cache the page anyway, which is why we use cookies). This is
   only important if the cookie is deleted while the page is still
   cached (and for ancient browsers that don't know about Cache-Control).
   If that's not an issue, you may be able to get away with
   "Cache-Control: private" instead. */
Response.AddHeader("Pragma", "no-cache");

/* Grab the current server time. */
var gDate = new Date();
/* Are the seconds shown by default? When changing this, also change the
   JavaScript client code's definition of clockShowsSeconds below to match. */
var clockShowsSeconds = false;

function getServerDateItems() {
    return gDate.getFullYear()+","+gDate.getMonth()+","+gDate .getDate()+","
        +gDate.getHours()+","+gDate.getMinutes()+","+gDate .getSeconds();
}

/*** Clock -- end of server-side support code ***/
%>

Then in your above code change this:
var clock_time = new Date();

to
var clock_time = new Date(<%=getServerDateItems()%>);

which should give you the correct server time.

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thanks for hanging in here with me, im just learning. anyway, your provided answer seems great, and even though it now appears to be grabbing the date from the server, the ticking clock part has again deactivated. you have to reload the page to update the clock. arrrgh! below is my complete code. if you have any more ideas, i would love to hear them. i am going home for the evening now, thanks again for yor help!

<html>
<head>
<title>JavaScript Clock Demo</title>

<%@ LANGUAGE="JavaScript" %>
<%

Response.AddHeader("Pragma", "no-cache");

var gDate = new Date();

function getServerDateItems() {
    return gDate.getFullYear()+","+gDate.getMonth()+","+gDate .getDate()+","
        +gDate.getHours()+","+gDate.getMinutes()+","+gDate .getSeconds();
}

%>

</head>
<style>
.clock {
font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:12px;
color:#666666;
}</style>

<body>
<center>


<div id="js_clock" class="clock">
<script language="javascript">
function js_clock(){
var clock_time = new Date(<%=getServerDateItems()%>);
var clock_hours = clock_time.getHours();
var clock_minutes = clock_time.getMinutes();
var clock_seconds = clock_time.getSeconds();
var clock_suffix = "AM";

if (clock_hours > 11){clock_suffix = "PM";clock_hours = clock_hours - 12;}
if (clock_hours == 0){clock_hours = 12;}
if (clock_hours < 10){clock_hours = clock_hours;}
if (clock_minutes < 10){clock_minutes = "0" + clock_minutes;}
if (clock_seconds < 10){clock_seconds = "0" + clock_seconds;}

var clock_div = document.getElementById('js_clock');clock_div.inne rHTML = clock_hours + ":" + clock_minutes + ":" + clock_seconds + " " + clock_suffix;setTimeout("js_clock()", 1000);}js_clock();</script></div>


</center>
</body>
</html>

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