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Description: Use these instructions to add the date to your web site.
Directions: Below you will see example code and where to place it in your HTML file. You can add HTML tags to format the text and position it wherever you want.

Paste the code between the open and close BODY tags within your document, like this:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Title of page here.</TITLE>
</HEAD>

<BODY>

Add code anywhere here to display time.

</BODY>
</HTML>

Then use Control-C to copy the text into your web page.

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="Javascript"><!--

// ***********************************************
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// Use the script, just leave this message intact.
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// ( http://www.cgiscript.net/scripts.htm )
// ***********************************************

// Get today's current date.
var now = new Date();

// Array list of days.
var days = new Array('Sunday','Monday','Tuesday','Wednesday','Thursday','Friday','Saturday');

// Array list of months.
var months = new Array('January','February','March','April','May','June','July','August','September','October','November','December');

// Calculate the number of the current day in the week.
var date = ((now.getDate()<10) ? "0" : "")+ now.getDate();

// Calculate four digit year.
function fourdigits(number)	{
	return (number < 1000) ? number + 1900 : number;
								}
// Join it all together
today =  days[now.getDay()] + ", " +
              months[now.getMonth()] + " " +
               date + ", " +
                (fourdigits(now.getYear())) ;

// Print out the data.
document.write("Today\'s date is " +today+ ".");
  
//--></SCRIPT>