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JAVASCRIPT CODE TO DISPLAY CURRENT DATE

DEMONSTRATION
The following script will display formatted current date on the face of a webpage within a span container providing a means to render it in the middle of a paragraph. Date displayed is user's local date. The application requires a trigger to initialize the display function and must be positioned after the first reference in the body. This could be included in a footer script or via the body onload attribute as shown below.
The current date is .
JS Code for Head Container <script type="text/javascript"> var months=new Array(13); months[1]="January"; months[2]="February"; months[3]="March"; months[4]="April"; months[5]="May"; months[6]="June"; months[7]="July"; months[8]="August"; months[9]="September"; months[10]="October"; months[11]="November"; months[12]="December"; var time=new Date(); var lmonth=months[time.getMonth() + 1]; var date=time.getDate(); var year=time.getYear(); if ((navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer") && (year < 2000)) year="19" + year; if (navigator.appName == "Netscape") year=1900 + year; var dateValue = lmonth + " " + date + ", " + year; function initializeDate(){ document.getElementById('display_date').innerHTML = dateValue; } </script>
Event Trigger <body onload="initializeDate()">
Body Container XHTML <span id="display_date"></span>

JAVASCRIPT CODE TO DISPLAY CURRENT DATE