Increase RGB components every Hour (r), Minute (g), Second (b) for digital clock

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Published on 2012-11-29T04:53:38Z Indexed on 2012/11/29 5:03 UTC
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So I am taking my first javascript class (total noob) and one of the assignments is to modify a digital clock by assigning the color red to hours, green minutes, blue to seconds, then increase the respective color component when it changes. I have successfully assigned a decimal color value (ex. "#850000" to each element (hours, minutes, seconds), but my brain is fried trying to figure out how to increase the brightness when hours, minutes, seconds change, i.e. red goes up to "#870000" changing from 1:00:00 pm to 2:00:00 pm. I've searched everywhere with no help on how to successfully do this. Here is what I have so far and any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

TJ

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
    function updateClock()
    {

      var currentTime = new Date();
      var currentHours = currentTime.getHours();
      var currentMinutes = currentTime.getMinutes();
      var currentSeconds = currentTime.getSeconds();

      // Pad the minutes with leading zeros, if required 
      currentMinutes = ( currentMinutes < 10 ? "0" : "" ) + currentMinutes;

      // Pad the seconds with leading zeros, if required 
      currentSeconds = ( currentSeconds < 10 ? "0" : "" ) + currentSeconds;

      // Choose either "AM" or "PM" as appropriate
      var timeOfDay = ( currentHours < 12 ) ? "AM" : "PM";

      // Convert the hours component to 12-hour format
      currentHours = ( currentHours > 12 ) ? currentHours - 12 : currentHours;

      // Convert an hours component if "0" to "12"
      currentHours = ( currentHours == 0 ) ? 12 : currentHours;

        // Get hold of the html elements by their ids
        var hoursElement = document.getElementById("hours");
        document.getElementById("hours").style.color = "#850000";
        var minutesElement = document.getElementById("minutes");
        document.getElementById("minutes").style.color = "#008500";
        var secondsElement = document.getElementById("seconds");
        document.getElementById("seconds").style.color = "#000085";
        var am_pmElement = document.getElementById("am_pm");

        // Put the clock sections text into the elements' innerHTML
        hoursElement.innerHTML = currentHours;
        minutesElement.innerHTML = currentMinutes;
        secondsElement.innerHTML = currentSeconds;
        am_pmElement.innerHTML = timeOfDay;
    }               
// -->
</script>

</head>
<body onload="updateClock(); setInterval( 'updateClock()', 1000 )">
    <h1 align="center">The JavaScript digital clock</h1>
    <h2 align="center">Thomas Fertterer - Lab 2</h2>
    <div id='clock' style="text-align: center">
        <span id="hours"></span>:
        <span id='minutes'></span>:
        <span id='seconds'></span>
        <span id='am_pm'></span>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

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