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Error: 'document.Clock.document' is null or not an object

I am getting this error (Error: 'document.Clock.document' is null or not an object) when executing the following code:

<%      'Detecting browsers used by the users
      set Brow=Server.CreateObject("MSWC.BrowserType")
      BrowType=Brow.Browser
%>

<html>
<head>
<title>Header Page</title>
<META HTTP-EQUIV = "Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
var timerID = null
var timerRunning = false
var TimeDiff = null

function stopclock(){
      if(timerRunning)
            clearTimeout(timerID)
      timerRunning = false
}

function startclock(){
      // computing time difference between the server and the client machine
      var now = new Date()
      var ClientT = Date.UTC(now.getFullYear(),now.getMonth(),now.getDate(),now.getHours(),now.getMinutes(),now.getSeconds())
      TimeDiff=arguments[0]*1000-ClientT
      
      // Make sure the clock is stopped
      stopclock()
      showtime()
}

function showtime(){
   var dayList = new Array("Sun","Mon","Tue","Wed","Thu","Fri","Sat")
   var monthList = new Array("Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","July","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec")
   var adjust = null
   
   var now = new Date()
   var ClientT = Date.UTC(now.getFullYear(),now.getMonth(),now.getDate(),now.getHours(),now.getMinutes(),now.getSeconds())
   ClientT = ClientT+now.getTimezoneOffset()*60000+TimeDiff
   
   var now = new Date(ClientT)
   var seconds = now.getSeconds()
   var minutes = now.getMinutes()
   var hours = now.getHours()
   var date = now.getDate()
   var day = now.getDay()
   var month = now.getMonth()
   
   var timeValue = "" + dayList[day] + ", "
   timeValue += monthList[month] + " "
   timeValue += date + ", "
   timeValue += ((hours > 12) ? hours - 12 : hours)
   timeValue += ((minutes < 10) ? ":0" : ":") + minutes
   timeValue += ((seconds < 10) ? ":0" : ":") + seconds
   timeValue += (hours >= 12) ? " PM " : " AM "
   <%if BrowType="IE" then%>
   Clock.innerHTML = timeValue;
   <%else%>
   document.Clock.document.write("<FONT face='Verdana,Arial' color=crimson size=1><B><U>"+timeValue+"</U></B></FONT>")
   document.Clock.document.close()
   <%end if%>      
   timerID = setTimeout("showtime()",1000)
   timerRunning = true
}
-->
</SCRIPT>
</head>

<%      date1=cdate("1/1/1970")
      date2=now
      TimeDiff=datediff("s",date1,date2)
%>

<BODY onLoad="startclock(<%=TimeDiff%>)">

<TABLE Height=85 width=500>
<TR>
      <TD align=middle><FONT color=mediumblue face=Arial size=5 >
            <STRONG>IE-597D Response Surface Methodology</STRONG></FONT>
    </TD></TR>
<TR>
    <TD align=middle><FONT color=mediumblue face=Arial size=4 >Process Simulator</FONT>
    </TD></TR>  
<TR>
      <TD align=right>
      <%if BrowType="IE" then%>
            <FONT face="Verdana,Arial" color=crimson size=1><B><U>
            <DIV id=Clock>&nbsp;</DIV></U></B></FONT>
      <%else%>
            <LAYER ID="Clock" left="350" top="80">&nbsp;</LAYER>
      <%end if%>      
      </TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</body>
</html>

NOTE:  I took this code from an IIS3 server and am trying to run it on an IIS5 server.  I don't know much about ASP or javascripting.

Any suggestions?  
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Print out the value for BrowType.
Perhaps is the string NOt "IE" event when it is talking to IE, perhaps it is lowercase, or some additional information.

<%if BrowType="IE" then%>

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Oh, and to see the value in browser print it like this:

<BODY onLoad="startclock(<%=TimeDiff%>)">
BrowType: <b><%=BrowType%></b><br>




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Very strange.  When I added that line and ran the page I got brow type = Netscape, but I was using IE 6.  When I ran the page on a different machine with netscape I got brow type = default.

Any thoughts?
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That seems to work great.  Thanks.

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You are welcome.
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SherryG

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Woops.  I just noticed that everytime I go to the page the date and time it displays and starts counting from is Wed, Dec 31, 11:00:00 PM.

Any idea why it might do that?  I checked and the time is correct on the server.
 
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Do you pass the correct offset in the body tag:
<BODY onLoad="startclock(<%=TimeDiff%>)">

The offset has to be in miliseconds.
Check the value again with the print.
Like this:
<BODY onLoad="startclock(<%=TimeDiff%>)">
TimeDiff: <b><%=TimeDiff%></b><br>


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When I pasted those two lines to my page nothing displays after TimeDiff:  and I get (undefined, undefined NaN, NaN:NaN:NaN AM) where the date used to appear.

 
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SherryG

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I think I got it.  I added the

<%     date1=cdate("1/1/1970")
     date2=now
     TimeDiff=datediff("s",date1,date2)
%>

back in just before my body tag and it seems to be working.

Sorry for being such a putz at this.
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Put this lines before the <body> tag:
<%    
     date1=cdate("1/1/1970")
     date2=now
     TimeDiff=datediff("s",date1,date2)
%>


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Ok, you managed it :)