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Why not? It separates hours from minutes. Would you prefer asterisks or what?

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Q: Why is there a colon between the two numbers on a digital clock?
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A colon.


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This question is ambiguous to completely answer, because displaying a digital clock has different interpretations. In the following, a digital clock is assumed to be 2 digits for the hours and 2 digits for the minutes with a colon in between, styled at your discretion to look like a digital clock.If you want to display the time statically as of the page loading, grab the current time() and throw it into date($format, $time). The time() function will retrieve the current time in seconds from the Unix Epoch (1/1/1970). The date() function will take this timestamp and format it, according to the format string given. See the related link for complete documentation on possible formats. The following example works fine:$time = time();$format = 'h:i A'; // "h" is the current hour, "i" the current minute, and "a" AM or PM.echo date($format, $time);This will effectively output the time as a digital clock would. You may change the format to alter how the hours and minutes are displayed, and even provide more (or less) information about the current time.If you want to display the time and have it dynamically update to reflect the current time, you will need to use Javascript -- which is out of the scope of this question.