Here's a simple set of functions to display the clients date. With the internet being a global system,
displaying the date on server may bear no resemblence to the clients date. Not everyone lives by US Eastern
Standard Time, so the following script will give your pages a little more local content than is possible
using server side scripting.
<script Language="JavaScript">
<!--
function GetDay(nDay)
{
var Days = new Array("Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday",
"Thursday","Friday","Saturday");
return Days[nDay]
}
function GetMonth(nMonth)
{
var Months = new Array("January","February","March","April","May","June",
"July","August","September","October","November","December");
return Months[nMonth]
}
function DateString()
{
var Today = new Date();
var suffix = "th";
switch (Today.getDate())
{
case 1:
case 21:
case 31:
suffix = "st"; break;
case 2:
case 22:
suffix = "nd"; break;
case 3:
case 23:
suffix = "rd"; break;
};
var strDate = GetDay(Today.getDay()) + " " + Today.getDate();
strDate += suffix + " " + GetMonth(Today.getMonth()) + ", " + Today.getYear();
return strDate
}
</script>
To use this in your web pages, just include the above script somewhere, and add the following
lines:
<script Language="JavaScript">
<!--
document.write("<p>Today is " + DateString() + "</p>\n");
</script>
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