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Display the time according to your blog via a widget, admin widget, and/or template tag.

This plugin adds a timestamp string to the top of all admin pages to show the server time for the blog. This admin time widget is AJAX-ified so that if you click the timestamp, it updates in place (without a page reload) to show the new current server time.

Also provided is a “Blog Time” widget (for WP2.8+) providing the same functionality as the admin widget, but for your sidebars. You may also utilize the plugin’s capabilities directly within a theme template via use of the template tag ‘blog_time()’.

NOTE: This plugin generates a timestamp and NOT a clock. The time being displayed is the time of the page load, or if clicked, the time when the widget last retrieved the time. It does not actively increment time on the display.

This is most useful to see the server/blog time to judge when a time sensitive post, comment, or action would be dated by the blog (i.e. such as monitoring for when to close comments on a contest post, or just accounting for the server being hosted in a different timezone).

Find out more at the plugin’s WordPress Plugin Repository page.

1. Unzip blog-time.zip inside the /wp-content/plugins/ directory for your site (or install via the built-in WordPress plugin installer)
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ admin menu in WordPress
3. Optionally use the ‘Blog Time’ widget (only in WP2.8+), or the template tag ‘blog_time() in a theme template file, to display the blog’s time at the time of the page’s rendering.