I'm using the following script to show CURRENT DATE and TIME on my control page

tell application "IndigoServer"
    set value of variable "CURRENTDAYDATE" to (current date) as string
end tell

The problem is I cant get the time to update as the current time changes- The time will only change if I RUN the script and then the Time is stuck.
Is their a way to auto AUTO RUN it. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

You need a separate time/date trigger that runs periodically (perhaps once a minute that updates the variable (use the script you have above). Then you would just show that variable on your control page.

Hi JAY,
I have a trigger set up already but there is no option to PERIODICALLY run it- Which is what I'm looking for.

That's exactly what a Time/Date Action does - it runs at the time periods you specify.

I guess I was looking for an option for SECONDS but then again that might be too much. Is it possible to take the seconds off my script?
It currently reads " Friday,February,4 2011 12:09:03 am". If I cant run every second, can the "03" be removed from the script?

On the Time/Date Trigger tab, under the "Time:" section, you'd select the "Every" radio button and put in some fractional amount of minutes (.02 or something) to get seconds. But really, that's a lot of processing overhead to just show seconds ticking on a control page.

AppleScript uses the formats specified in the "Language & Text" system control panel to format the string that's returned when you coerce a date into a string. The easiest way to change what's shown is to change the format there. AppleScript uses the "Full" date format and appends the "Medium" time format. You can see/edit those if you click on the "Customize" button. If you edit the "Medium" format for Time and remove the ":" and "09" popup so that the medium line looks like this:

7:08 PM

Then here's what you'd get for the various coercions and elements of a date in AppleScript:

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time string of (current date) -- result: 12:14 PM
(current date) as string -- result: Friday, February 4, 2011 12:13 PM