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JavaScript Clock (continuous)

Hello Thom, I hope you don't mind me asking this questions/advice. I followed your, "JavaScript Clock/Timer Demo", but cannot get the Continuous Clock to work. I would like to add a clock to my PDF so that it can record the time on the PDF document when someone submits it via e-mail using the action, mouse up, submit form feature. I am currently using Acrobat XI Pro. Thank you in advance.


Al Gonzalez


Voted Best Answer

It is not necessary to put a clock on your PDF to capture the time, The time is always available in the Acrobat JavaScript model. There are a few different ways you can add a "timestamp" to the submit. Here's an easy one.

  1. Add a text field to your form named "SubmitTime", this field may be hidden so the user can't see it.
  2. Add a "Run a JavaScript" action to the mouseup event on the submit button. This action must be before the submit action.

  3. put this code in the button

    this.getField("SubmitTime").value = util.printd("mm/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss",new Date());

The current date and time will now be submitted with the form data.

Thom Parker
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