Thread: How do I insert the date in a webpage without using BlueVoda?

I have spent hours trying various scripts all in a vain attempt to place a simple line at the top of a webpage that shows the day,date,& time. All of these scripts assume I am some kind of super geek instead of a senile old fart. Can someone please show me how to do this simply? Thank you. 3's
Grampa

Well it depends a great deal on what you are using to build..and if not blue voda.. i assume you can get to some sort of html coding, you would insert your scripts there where you want it to appear. It would help a great deal if you showed a published page.

Karen

All I want to do is have an updating date in the middle of the top copper area. Nothing fancy. or even running in the bottom status bar. I am easy. I just want to add the date to her website for her. I have dreamweaver mx 2004 that I use to do webpages but it just inserts a static date not an updating one. Thank you. 3's
Grampa

http://huntshomework.com/index.html

You insert the javascript code in the html or code view where you want the date to appear.

Karen

Sorry, I am not making myself clear. I need the actual code that will place the auto updating date on the page. Do you know of a simple code that will do this? Thank you. 3's
Grampa

<font style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;" color=#000000>
<div id="basicdate">
</div>
</font>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
var now = new Date();
var days = new Array('Sunday','Monday','Tuesday','Wednesday','Thu rsday','Friday','Saturday');
var months = new Array('January','February','March','April','May',' June','July','August','September','October','Novem ber','December');
var date = ((now.getDate()<10) ? "0" : "")+ now.getDate();
var year = (now.getYear() < 1000) ? now.getYear() + 1900 : now.getYear();
today = days[now.getDay()] + ", " + months[now.getMonth()] + " " + date + ", " + year;
basicdate.innerHTML = today;
</script>

Thanx G

You can also google up a free widget and place the coding. There are ton of widgets that display dates and times in fancy methods, and they give you the code for them =)