Output the Current Time

Question

Challenge

You must output the current time continuously (until cancelled by an interrupt), once every second, by any of the following means:

• It must be in 24-hour or AM/PM format.
  • If it is the former, it must be spaced out with colons (i.e. 15:47:36).
  • If it is the latter, it must be spaced out with colons and have the AM/PM following (i.e. 3:47:36 PM)
• It may be pulled from the internet.
• It may be the system time.
• It must output any naturally accessible form of output which supports text that you choose.
• Output may have extra information aside of the time in it, but you must guarantee one, and only one, output of time per second.
• The continuous output must be a second apart - if you choose to wait until the second changes between outputs, that is fine. If you wait a second between each output, that is perfectly acceptable, despite the eventual loss of accuracy.

Since this is a catalog, languages created after this challenge are allowed to compete. Note that there must be an interpreter so the submission can be tested. It is allowed (and even encouraged) to write this interpreter yourself for a previously unimplemented language. Other than that, all the standard rules of code-golf must be obeyed. Submissions in most languages will be scored in bytes in an appropriate preexisting encoding (usually UTF-8).

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## [><>](http://esolangs.org/wiki/Fish), 121 bytes

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Answer 1

Minecraft 1.8.7, 7 + 8 = 15 blytes (bytes + blocks)

Only one command block involved:

xp 1 @p

Output goes to the client console like so:

As part of the normal output.

This is the system:

xp gives a specified amount of experience to a specified player with the syntax xp <amount> <player>. I'm pretty sure this is the smallest command that has singular output that I can get, now.

Answer 2

JavaScript, 32 bytes

setInterval("alert(Date())",1e3)

Uses the fact that setInterval evaluates code. This is not recommended, but when was that a concern in code golf?

Date() returns the current time and date in a format like this (may vary per system).

 Wed Jul 28 1993 14:39:07 GMT-0600 (PDT)

Answer 3

sh (+ watch), 11 bytes

Script:

watch -n1 .

(no trailing newline)

Output:

Every 1,0s: . (SPACES) Sat Nov 28 19:07:51 2015

The amount of spaces depends on the terminal width.

Tested on Debian8 and NetBSD7.

Answer 4

Snap, 8 7 6 blocks

_{(source: cubeupload.com)}

(Yes, I changed it in MS Paint because I was too lazy to make another screenshot. So what? At least it's readable.)
click the script to run
24-hour clock.

Answer 5

Python 2, 47 bytes

from time import*
while[sleep(1)]:print ctime()

No online link because ideone times out (huehuehue) before printing anything.

Thanks to @xsot for the while[sleep(1)] trick and the ctime trick.

Prints out the current date and time like so: Fri Nov 27 21:23:02 2015

Answer 6

Javascript ES6, 43 39 bytes

setInterval(_=>console.log(Date()),1e3)

Works with my current time settings (which have not been changed for some time, thank you), at least.

4 bytes saved by Conor O'Brien.

Answer 7

Perl, Command Line, 24 bytes

sleep(say)while$_=gmtime

This must be run from the command line, as perl -E'sleep(say)while$_=gmtime' (on windows, use double quotes instead). The date will be output along with the time, which seems to be allowed.

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Perl, 25 bytes

sleep print$/.gmtime;do$0

In a scalar context, gmtime will return a string similar to Sat Nov 28 10:23:05 2015. The result from print, always 1, is used as the parameter for sleep. do$0 is used to execute the script again, after the timer has finished.

Answer 8

Arcyóu, 27 bytes

(@ t(pn(zz 1)(p(st %H:%M:%S

I had to kludge together two new functions for this challenge, zz and st.

pn: Exactly like Lisp's progn.

zz: Direct link to Python's time.sleep.

st: Direct link to Python's time.strftime.

Normally, quotes would be necessary around the format string, but since there are no spaces, it's parsed as a symbol. The interpreter evaluates undefined symbols as themselves, so we get a string.

Answer 9

Bash, 51 31 24 21 20 bytes

Thanks to @quartata for some very helpful comments. Thank you @Dennis for clarifications and for chopping off even more bytes. Thank you @VoteToClose for clarifying the rules (which apparently I am bad at reading) further reducing the bytes.

date displays the the full date with a 24 hour clock. sleep 1 sleeps for a second. exec $0 loops the script infinitely.

date;sleep 1;exec $0

Answer 10

Befunge 98, 53 bytes

 v
v>"EMIT"4(>H.8,':,M.8,':,S:.8,d,
>:S-    !!k^

Notes:

1. This program does not zero-pad the numbers it prints.
2. This program prints a space and then a backspace character after every number, as the . command prints an implicit space at the end.
3. The size of the stack in this program grows every second, and thus it will eventually run out of memory.
4. This program will overwrite the previous time when it prints a new one. To make it print each time on a new line, change the d on the first line to an a

Answer 11

mIRC 7.49 20 16 Bytes

/timer 0 1 $time

Answer 12

AutoHotkey, 50 bytes

x::Send,% a!=A_Sec? A_Hour ":" A_Min ":" a:=A_Sec:

Notes:

1. Requires you to hold x for continuous output.
2. Remove your finger from x to interrupt and end the output.
3. Output is in 24-hour format.

Answer 13

C (on Linux x64), 179 177 175 168 159 bytes

#include<time.h>
#include<sys/time.h>
main(){struct timeval a;char b[9];for(;;){gettimeofday(&a,0);strftime(b,9,"%T",localtime(&a.tv_sec));puts(b);sleep(1);}}

Ungolfed:

#include <time.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
main(){
  struct timeval a;
  char b[9];
  for(;;){
    gettimeofday(&a, 0);
    strftime(b, 9, "%T",localtime(&a.tv_sec));
    puts(b);
    sleep(1);
  }
}

Only tested on, and likely only functions on, linux x64 (x32 might work, but other platforms probably won't).

The main difference between this program and the other posted C program is the use of linux-exclusive function calls, which, while terrible practice for real software, saves quite a few bytes...if you ignore all the compiler warnings.

Answer 14

Jolf, 14 8 7 bytes

^{Crossed out 14 is a striked 1? Naw, it will never catch on ;)}

Try it here! Click run, do not click on anything else ^_^ the page is highly... explosive. Yes. Fixed output system with update.

TaD#`~2

(I added some constants, and ~1 to ~4 are powers of 10.)

Explanation

setInterval("alert(Date())",1000);
     T         a      D#   ` ~2

Answer 15

PHP, 37 bytes

<?=date('G:i:s');header('refresh:1');

Outputs the formatted server time and sets the page to refresh every second.

Of course, it depends on your internet connection and how fast-repsonding your server is :)

Demo

Answer 16

Dyalog APL, 27 18 16 bytes

':',¨⎕TS⋄→≢⎕DL 1

Try it online!

⎕TS Y M D h m s t
':',¨ prepend : to each
⋄ new statement
⎕DL 1 wait a second and return actual waited time; 1.0something seconds
≢ tally the actual waited time, giving 1
→ go to line (1 = this line)

Answer 17

Perl 6, 29 bytes

The right way to do this:

Supply.interval(1).tap: -> $ {
  say join ':',.hour,.minute,.whole-second given DateTime.now
}
await Promise.new; # halt this thread indefinitely

22:21:58
22:21:59
22:22:0
22:22:1
22:22:2
…

The golfed version

loop {sleep say join ':',now.polymod(1,60,60,24)[3…1]} # 56 bytes

3:59:26
3:59:27
3:59:28
3:59:29
…

Since the output doesn't have to be restricted to just the time, I can make it quite a bit shorter.

loop {sleep say DateTime.now} # 29 bytes

2015-11-27T22:18:10-06:00
2015-11-27T22:18:11-06:00
2015-11-27T22:18:12-06:00
2015-11-27T22:18:13-06:00
…

Answer 18

R, 38 bytes

repeat{Sys.sleep(1);print(Sys.time())}

This outputs the current time in the following format:

[1] "2015-11-28 07:34:01 CET"

Answer 19

Powershell, 19 bytes

for(){date;sleep 1}

Answer 20

VBA, 69 Bytes

Getting the Time is easy, now() Only outputting every 1 second.... MUCH more verbose.

This is the "Right" way of waiting 1 second in VBA. 78 Bytes

Sub a():Debug.Print Now():Application.Wait Now()+TimeValue("0:0:1"):a:End Sub

Or if you want to Cut some Corners and only being right 86% of the time is good enough 63 Bytes
adding one SigFig take you to 95% accurate and a third will get you to 99.36%

Sub a():Debug.Print Now():Application.Wait Now()+1e-5:a:End Sub

If you want to get the above method to 100% then you need 69 Bytes (1/86400)

Sub a():Debug.Print Now():Application.Wait Now()+(1/86400):a:End Sub

All of these methods would stumble on a leap second Beacuse they do not wait for 1 second, But wait untill 1 second. At midnight when the clocks fall back an hour this clock will stop for 1 hour and then pick up where it left off.

VBA does allow for the Sleep Method but your byte couter is Ruined. 97 Bytes

Declare Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32" (ByVal k as Long)
Sub a():Debug.Print Now():Sleep(1e3):a:End Sub

Answer 21

JavaScript, 47 38 35 bytes

for(p=1;t=Date();p=t)t!=p&&alert(t)

Explanation

Continuously checks if the time has changed then alerts if it has.

for(
  p=1;
  t=Date();
  p=t
)
  t!=p
    &&alert(t)

Answer 22

AppleScript, 51 35 bytes

repeat
log current date
delay 1
end

Pretty dang obvious. Prints the current date, which contains the time, delays a second, then continues.

Answer 23

𝔼𝕊𝕄𝕚𝕟, 13 chars / 25 bytes

Ĥ⇀ôᶁ⬮+⬬),1𝕜)

Try it here(Firefox only).

This is surprisingly readable.

Answer 24

Dyalog APL, 36 bytes

Not very short this time.

{⎕←1↓∊'⊂:⊃,ZI2'⎕FMT 3↑3↓⎕TS⋄∇⎕DL 1}1

This outputs 24-hour time, i.e.:

14:37:44
14:37:45
14:37:46
...

Explanation:

• {...}1: define a function and call it (the argument is ignored, but we need the function in order to call it recursively)
  • ⎕TS: a system function that returns the current date and time, in the format year - month - day - hour - minute - second - millisecond. (⎕TS = timestamp)
  • 3↑3↓: drop the first 3 items (i.e. year - month - day) and then take the first 3 items that are left (hour - minute - second).
  • '⊂:⊃,ZI2'⎕FMT: format each number as a two-digit integer (I2) with leading zeroes (Z), prefixed by a colon (⊂:⊃). (This results in a matrix.)
  • ∊: Get all the elements in the matrix, in row order. (This gives a vector, in this case a string.)
  • 1↓: drop the first character (which is an extra :)
  • ⎕←: output it
  • ⎕DL 1: then wait one second (⎕DL = delay)
  • ∇: call the function recursively

Answer 25

QBasic, 18 bytes

?TIME$
SLEEP 1
RUN

Answer 26

Haskell, 98 96 85 bytes

import GHC.Conc
import Data.Time
m@main=getCurrentTime>>=print>>threadDelay(10^6)>>m

Alternate version using do notation:

main = do
  time <- getCurrentTime
  print time
  threadDelay 1000000
  main

Gets the current time with getCurrentTime from the Data.Time library, then pipes it into print, waits 1,000,000 microseconds (1 second) and calls itself.

Thanks to nimi and Mauris!

Answer 27

Batch - 34 40 bytes

I love built-in variables:

:A                    //Set label A
echo %time%           //Print the time in 24 hour format
timeout 1    //Wait 1 second (thanks DavidPostill)
goto A                //Jump back to A and repeat

_{There definitely needs to be some sleep command in Batch anytime soon.}

Answer 28

Python 3, 99 Bytes

Apologies if it formats the code weird, doing this from an ipad. (dont ask). I know this code is big considering some of the other answers, but I didn't see a python one yet so I wanted to add it in.

import time
import datetime
while(True):
 print(datetime.datetime.now().time())
 time.sleep(1)  

Answer 29

Java, 300 166 137 125 124 bytes

Nearly More than halved thanks to VoteToClose, Paülo Ebermann and janschweizer!

interface A{static void main(String[]a)throws Exception{for(;;Thread.sleep(1000))System.out.println(new java.util.Date());}}

Ungolfed:

interface A {
    static void main(String[] a) throws Exception {
        for (;; Thread.sleep(1000)) System.out.println(new java.util.Date());
    }
}

Answer 30

Perl, 99 81 75 51 40 36 29 27 bytes

sleep(print gmtime.$/);do$0