I would like to enter the current date

[ganderla]

Is there some sort of coding I could just plop into a space where my users would see the current date?

[DrDoc]

var today = new Date();
document.write(today);

If you want to customize it, you can extract various date portions:

var hrs = today.getHours();
var mins = today.getMinutes();
var secs = today.getSeconds();
var month = today.getMonth();
var mday = today.getDate();
var year = today.getYear();

Then again -- all of the above assumes that their system clock is set properly. You could, also, opt for a server side solution and adjust the timezone difference based on their IP.

[ganderla]

What if I just want somthing like:

Febuary 10th, 2006?

[DrDoc]

<script type="text/javascript"> 
var arrMonths = Array('January', 
  'February', 
  'March', 
  'April', 
  'May', 
  'June', 
  'July', 
  'August', 
  'September', 
  'October', 
  'November', 
  'December'); 
var today = new Date(); 
var month = arrMonths[today.getMonth()]; 
var mday = today.getDate(); 
var ord; 
switch(mday) { 
  case '1': 
  case '21': 
  case '31': 
    ord = 'st'; 
  break; 
  case '2': 
  case '22': 
    ord = 'nd'; 
  break; 
  case '3': 
  case '23': 
    ord = 'rd'; 
  break; 
  default: 
    ord = 'th'; 
  break; 
} 
var year = today.getYear(); 
document.write(month + ' ' + mday + ord + ', ' + (year < 1900? year + 1900 : year)); 
</script>

[ganderla]

Thank you, I appreciate it.
I hope I am assuming correctly that it will change to the next day when ever the persons computer changes?

[DrDoc]

Yep, it will always show whatever date the user's computer is set to.

[ganderla]

Thank you much!

[tbear]

Another way would be to use php by inserting the following code:

<?php print (Date("l, d F , Y"));?>

Remove or rearrange the elements as required...

[DrDoc]

... except that it will always show the date on the server