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Jun 25.2003

What’s the best way to insert a date reflecting the date a page was last modified?

I was thinking of using the javascript lastModified property. I know that results will depend on the browser, but can I somehow customize the output so that just the month and date show?

Here’s my code:
<SCRIPT language=”JavaScript”>
var lm=document.lastModified;
document.write(“Last modified: “+ lm)
</SCRIPT>

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@pyroJun 25.2003 — Yes you can...just split it at the spaces, and only take the first part:

&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
var lm=document.lastModified;
lm = lm.split(" ");
document.write("Last modified: "+ lm[0])
&lt;/script&gt;
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@askohenauthorJun 25.2003 — Thanks for your help. -A
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@pyroJun 25.2003 — You're welcome. ?
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@CharlesJun 25.2003 — [font=monospace]<script type="text/javascript">

<!--

alert (new Date(document.lastModified).toDateString());

// -->

</script>[/font]
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@askohenauthorJun 25.2003 — What about a way to transform 6/25/2003 to 06 June 2003?
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@CharlesJun 25.2003 — [font=monospace]<script type="text/javascript">

<!--

Date.prototype.toDateString = function () {return [this.getDate < 10 ? '0' + this.getDate() : this.getDate(), ['January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December'][this.getMonth()], this.getFullYear()].join(' ')}

alert (new Date(document.lastModified).toDateString())

// -->

</script>[/font]
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@pyroJun 25.2003 — &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
date = new Date(document.lastModified);
day = date.getDate();
month = date.getMonth();
year = date.getYear();
months = new Array("January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December");
month = months[month];
document.write("Last modified: "+ day +" "+ month +" "+year)
&lt;/script&gt;
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@askohenauthorJun 25.2003 — Cool. When I get a chance I'll try and figure out how you did that. Thanks again.
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