/* showClock() function extracts the current time hours, minutes and seconds and then displays them in the div with showText id from the BODY section */

function showClock()
{
var clock=new Date();
var hours=clock.getHours();
var minutes=clock.getMinutes();
var seconds=clock.getSeconds();
// for a nice disply we'll add a zero before the numbers between 0 and 9
if (hours<10){
hours="0" + hours;
}


dn = "AM";
if (hours > 12) { dn = "PM"; hours = hours - 12; }
if (hours == 0) { hours = 12; }


if (minutes<10){
minutes="0" + minutes;
}
if (seconds<10){
seconds="0" + seconds;
}
document.getElementById('showText').innerHTML=hours+":"+minutes+":"+seconds+" " +dn;
t=setTimeout('showClock()',500);
/* setTimeout() JavaScript method is used to call showClock() every 1000 milliseconds (that means exactly 1 second) */
}