How can I automatically insert date and time to a meta tag on page load.

Slippers said:

Something like this:

https://codepen.io/phpcodertech/pen/oNbrqee

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TiagoS said:

With PHP. Just use it to print the date and time into the meta tag. It’s server side language so will essentially inject there before the page load.

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Castamir said:

I was able to figure this out later on. Meta tags on pages use the opengraph protocol which requires a w3c time format, and when I tried configuring the Javascript codepen from Slippers, I didn't get it right.
So, I went to stackoverflow.com and found the code snippet below, the only thing I changed is the w3c time format. I am posting this here in case someone stumbled across this thread later on

PHP:

<meta property="article:published_time" content="2020-01-06T11:03:26+00:00" /><meta property="article:modified_time" content="@php date_default_timezone_set('Africa/Lagos');

$timestamp = time();
$date_time = date("Y-m-d\TH:i:sP", $timestamp);
echo "$date_time"; @endphp" />

EDIT : Remove @php and @endphp if you are not using laravel and replace with normal php opening and closing synthax.

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