Hey guys,

where can I get a free script that will be updating the date I have on my website http://www.i-goldmine.com?

In what language, PHP or JavaScript? Depending on whichever you want, search google asap to see over 1 million free results.

Happy New Week!

I would advise you use javascript for your solution, assuming you are talking about displaying current date. Why? because unlike say, PHP/JSP that uses server time, Javascript uses browser time or time on the client's machine.

In other words, if the server is in Nigeria and I access your site at 7pm naija time, I will see 7pm on my browser in the US and that would be wrong cos it would be 1pm where I am. On the other hand, javascript would display 1pm on my end and 7pm on yours, again cos it goes by the client's clock, not the server.

As omni says, do some googling. You could also check out http://irt.org/script/script.htm or dynamicdrive.com

Good luck!

yes, i was about ta chip in the server time/client time thing.
someone has.

Check out these two sites:

http://www.hotscripts.com/

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/

Add the current date to your page.
This script will add the date in the form dd month yyyy (eg. 7 January 2000). Just copy and paste it into the document where you want it to appear.

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
function makeArray() {
for (i = 0; i<makeArray.arguments.length; i++)
this[i + 1] = makeArray.arguments[i];
}
var months = new makeArray('January','February','March','April','May','June', 'July','August','September','October','November','December');
var date = new Date();
var day = date.getDate();
var month = date.getMonth() + 1;
var yy = date.getYear();
var year = (yy < 1000) ? yy + 1900 : yy;
document.write(day + " " + months[month] + " " + year);
//-->
</script>


Example 17 January 2009



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Document Last Modified (a more readable version)
Insert this code in your document where you want the page last modified date to appear.

<script language = 'JavaScript'>
<!--
function makeArray0() {
for (i = 0; i<makeArray0.arguments.length; i++)
this[i] = makeArray0.arguments[i];
}
var days = new makeArray0("Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday" ,"Friday","Saturday";
var months = new makeArray0('January','February','March','April','May','June', 'July','August','September','October','November','December');
function nths(day) {
if (day == 1 || day == 21 || day == 31) return 'st';
if (day == 2 || day == 22) return 'nd';
if (day == 3 || day == 23) return 'rd';
return 'th';
}
function getCorrectedYear(year) {
year = year - 0;
if (year < 70) return (2000 + year);
if (year < 1900) return (1900 + year);
return year;
}
function y2k(number) { return (number < 1000) ? number + 1900 : number; }
function padout(number) { return (number < 10) ? '0' + number : number; }
var last = document.lastModified;
var date = new Date(last);
var dateY2K = new Date(getCorrectedYear(date.getYear()),date.getMonth(),date.getDate());
document.write('Last Modified: '+ days[dateY2K.getDay()] + ' ' +
dateY2K.getDate() + nths(dateY2K.getDate()) + " " +
months[dateY2K.getMonth()] + ", " +
(y2k(dateY2K.getYear()))
);
//-->
</script>


Example Last Modified: Saturday 17th January, 2009



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Date Last Modified.
Use this script to show when your page was last modified.

<script language="javascript">
<!--
document.write('Last modified '+document.lastModified);
//-->
</script>

Last modified 01/17/2009 22:39:44

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Hope they help. Cheers