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JavaScript USES setTimeout to display the current time in real time

This example shows how JavaScript displays the current time in real time through setTimeout. Share with you for your reference. The details are as follows:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 <head>
 <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=gb2312" />
 <title>JS A small test </title>
 </head>
 <body>
  <style type="text/css">
   #time
   {
    background-color:#eee;
   }
  </style>
  <script type="text/javascript">
   function showtime()
   {
    var myDate = new Date();
    document.getElementById("time").innerHTML = myDate.getHours()
 + " when " + myDate.getMinutes() + " points "
 + myDate.getSeconds() + " seconds " ;
    setTimeout("showtime()",1000);
    }
</script>
  <div id="time">
   <script type="text/javascript">showtime();</script>
  </div>
 </body>
</html>

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