Javascript to display the current date and time

// get a new date (locale machine date time)
var date = new Date();
// get the date as a string
var n = date.toDateString();
// get the time as a string
var time = date.toLocaleTimeString();

// log the date in the browser console
console.log('date:', n);
// log the time in the browser console
console.log('time:',time);

// get a new date (locale machine date time)
var date = new Date();
// get the date as a string
var n = date.toDateString();
// get the time as a string
var time = date.toLocaleTimeString();

// find the html element with the id of time
// set the innerHTML of that element to the date a space the time
document.getElementById('time').innerHTML = n + ' ' + time;

<div id='time'></div>

//Fri Aug 30 2013 4:36 pm
console.log(formatAMPM(new Date()));

//using your function (passing in date)
function formatAMPM(date) {
    // gets the hours
    var hours = date.getHours();
    // gets the day
    var days = date.getDay();
    // gets the month
    var minutes = date.getMinutes();
    // gets AM/PM
    var ampm = hours >= 12 ? 'pm' : 'am';
    // converts hours to 12 hour instead of 24 hour
    hours = hours % 12;
    // converts 0 (midnight) to 12
    hours = hours ? hours : 12; // the hour '0' should be '12'
    // converts minutes to have leading 0
    minutes = minutes < 10 ? '0'+ minutes : minutes;
  
    // the time string
    var time = hours + ':' + minutes + ' ' + ampm;
  
    // gets the match for the date string we want
    var match = date.toString().match(/\w{3} \w{3} \d{1,2} \d{4}/);
  
    //the result
    return match[0] + ' ' + time;
}