Automatic Revision Dates with JavaScript

How to change the 'Last Updated' automatically?

[tommydc]

Hi,
I would like to change the date of 'Last Updated' on my web site automatically. With the JavaScript command "document.lastModified", I get something like
Last Updated: 09/27/2001 13:00:35
But I would only like to have the date, and not the hours:
Last Updated: 27/09/2001
or even better:
Last Updated: September 27, 2001
Which JavaScript command should I introduce?
Thank You

[tedster]

Hi tommydc, and welcome to the forums at Webmaster World,

Here's a link to a page with one method: [chami.com...]

[andrey_sea]

It would seem like the alternative would be to write something simple like this:

var sDate = document.lastModified();
document.write("Last updated on: " + sDate.substring(0,10));

[joshie76]

<script>
var sSep = "/"
dModDate = new Date(document.lastModified);
dModDate = dModDate.getDate() + sSep + dModDate.getMonth() + sSep + dModDate.getYear()
document.write (dModDate);
</script>

You can change the separator by modifying the string sSep and swap the month and date to get US formatted dates.

[JuniorHarris]

I assume displaying the last modified date is for users only. Since most search engine spiders ignore JavaScript would they not miss this entirely?

[andrey_sea]

JuniorHarris,
I believe you are correct, spiders will probably not pick up the JS code.