would like an "auto" date on my front page - (this may be boring & trivial to
I've been working with html since march, but have not run across any page that shows the code for auto date. when i do "view page source" it only shows the exact date ~ no code.
thanks!
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JP Stones posted this at 19:26 — 28th September 1999.
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Do you want the exact code?
JP
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John Pollock posted this at 21:15 — 28th September 1999.
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It can be done several ways. The easiest is probably SSI...JP had posted the SSI code for configuring it before but I can't seem to find it at the moment...
It can also be written to the page with a JavaScript, your best bet would be to look for a date script at
http://javascript.internet.com
or
http://www.javascripts.com
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JP Stones posted this at 04:53 — 1st October 1999.
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Jeez, Lloyd the SSI for this is only several characters long! Why go for this otpion instead?
JP
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tiny posted this at 19:53 — 1st October 1999.
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Pray, tell, Mr. Stones : ) !!!
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Anonymous posted this at 21:07 — 1st October 1999.
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INSERT WITHIN <HEAD></HEAD>
now = new Date();
var currentDay = now.getDay();
var currentDate = now.getDate() + '';
var dateAddon;
var currentMonth = now.getMonth();
var currentYear = now.getYear();
var dayList = new Array('Sunday','Monday','Tuesday','Wednesday','Thursday', 'Friday','Saturday');
var monthList = new Array('January','February','March','April','May','June','July', 'August','September','October','November','December');
if (currentDate.charAt(currentDate.length-1) == '1') { dateAddon = 'st'; }
else if (currentDate.charAt(currentDate.length-1) == '2') { dateAddon = 'nd'; }
else if (currentDate.charAt(currentDate.length-1) == '3') { dateAddon = 'rd'; }
else { dateAddon = 'th'; }
if (currentYear == 99) { currentYear = '19' + currentYear; }
else { currentYear = '20' + currentYear; }
var dateString = dayList[currentDay] + ' ' + currentDate + dateAddon + ' ' + monthList[currentMonth] + ' ' + currentYear;
INSERT WITHIN <BODY></BODY>
<script language="JavaScript"><!-- hide script from old browsers
document.write(dateString)
// end hiding from old browsers --></script>
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Anonymous posted this at 02:36 — 3rd October 1999.
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<JP Stones> not all servers will support SSI! especially free ones.
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JP Stones posted this at 21:57 — 4th October 1999.
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This is the code supplied for those curious:
the %A etc bit can be modified greatly to suit your needs ask if you need help...
<!--#config timefmt="%A, %B %d %Y"-->
<!--#echo var="DATE_LOCAL"-->
Glad it was of use
JP
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JP Stones posted this at 22:40 — 4th October 1999.
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Tiny, I have emailed you the code as requested.
Lloyd, good point, I forgot about that
Thanks for putting me straight.
JP
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tiny posted this at 00:43 — 5th October 1999.
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JP ~ thank you SOOOOOOOO much. I'm delighted!
See for yourself:
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