How to get current time with jQuery

You may try like this:

new Date($.now());

Also using Javascript you can do like this:

var dt = new Date();
var time = dt.getHours() + ":" + dt.getMinutes() + ":" + dt.getSeconds();
document.write(time);

Convert a Date object to an string, using one of Date.prototype's conversion getters, for example:

var d = new Date();
d+'';                  // "Sun Dec 08 2013 18:55:38 GMT+0100"
d.toDateString();      // "Sun Dec 08 2013"
d.toISOString();       // "2013-12-08T17:55:38.130Z"
d.toLocaleDateString() // "8/12/2013" on my system
d.toLocaleString()     // "8/12/2013 18.55.38" on my system
d.toUTCString()        // "Sun, 08 Dec 2013 17:55:38 GMT"

Or, if you want it more customized, see the list of Date.prototype's getter methods.

You need to fetch all "numbers" manually

like this:

var currentdate = new Date(); 
    var datetime = "Now: " + currentdate.getDate() + "/"
                + (currentdate.getMonth()+1)  + "/" 
                + currentdate.getFullYear() + " @ "  
                + currentdate.getHours() + ":"  
                + currentdate.getMinutes() + ":" 
                + currentdate.getSeconds();

document.write(datetime);

You don't need to use jQuery for this!

The native JavaScript implementation is Date.now().

Date.now() and $.now() return the same value:

Date.now(); // 1421715573651
$.now();    // 1421715573651

new Date(Date.now())   // Mon Jan 19 2015 20:02:55 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
new Date($.now());     // Mon Jan 19 2015 20:02:55 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)

..and if you want the time formatted in hh-mm-ss:

var now = new Date(Date.now());
var formatted = now.getHours() + ":" + now.getMinutes() + ":" + now.getSeconds();
// 20:10:58