Passing a Datestamp into Animate

in your script panel:

var xmlhttp;

var domParser = new DOMParser();

//Parse the XML string into an XMLDocument object using
//the DOMParser.parseFromString() method.
//var xmlDocument = domParser.parseFromString(xmlString, "text/xml");
if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
} else { // code for IE6, IE5
xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}

xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function () {
if (xmlhttp.readyState == 4 && xmlhttp.status == 200) {

var xml_string = xmlhttp.responseText;
console.log(xml_string);
}
}

xmlhttp.open("GET", "./php/date.php", true);  // if date.php is in a php subfolder of the html file


// in the server-side date.php file in the php subfolder, use:

<?php
echo date("M-d-Y g:i A");
?>