# Initializing the date/time on the ark player **URL:** \ **Category:** ⚙️ Web integration\ **Created:** [May 15, 2024, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/initializing-the-date-time-on-the-ark-player/1304 "2024-05-15T17:40:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WXNAWebDev](https://forum.spinitron.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/48db29/32.png) [@WXNAWebDev](https://forum.spinitron.com/u/WXNAWebDev)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2024, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/initializing-the-date-time-on-the-ark-player/1304/1 "2024-05-15T17:40:48Z")
Hello, John Mott from WXNA Nashville. i’m integrating the ark player into a page and have what I hope is a simple question, how do I initialize the date/time? Right now it initializes to the current date and time. It looks like some sort of post load initialization is occurring in javascript, as its filling out the date with a select statement, setting current day as today and the current time as now. thanks ![arkplayer](https://forum.spinitron.com/uploads/default/original/2X/d/d442970e1d823d3f23e37d87efc193b559d2a427.png) ---
**Author:** ![tom](https://forum.spinitron.com/user_avatar/forum.spinitron.com/tom/32/343_2.png) [@tom](https://forum.spinitron.com/u/tom)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2024, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/initializing-the-date-time-on-the-ark-player/1304/2 "2024-05-15T18:35:00Z")
Hi John, You can do that using the markup for the player tag. It’s mentioned in section 2 of the instructions. [https://spinitron.github.io/ark-player/](https://spinitron.github.io/ark-player/) ---
**Author:** ![WXNAWebDev](https://forum.spinitron.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/48db29/32.png) [@WXNAWebDev](https://forum.spinitron.com/u/WXNAWebDev)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2024, 6:45pm UTC](https://forum.spinitron.com/t/initializing-the-date-time-on-the-ark-player/1304/3 "2024-05-15T18:45:21Z")
thank you, that’s perfect!