Tutorials - JavaScript Current Date

Sometimes it's nice to display the current date on your Web page. The following JavaScript accomplishes this and has been tested for Y2K date compliance.

Step 1

Copy the following JavaScript in the box below and paste it into the <body> section of your HTML document where you want the date to appear.

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> var mydate=new Date() var year=mydate.getYear() if (year < 1000) year+=1900 var day=mydate.getDay() var month=mydate.getMonth() var daym=mydate.getDate() if (daym<10) daym="0"+daym var dayarray=new Array("Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday", "Friday","Saturday") var montharray=new Array("January","February","March","April","May","June","July", "August","September","October","November","December") document.write("<font color='#336666' face='Arial' size='2'><b> "+montharray[month]+" "+daym+", "+year+"</b></font> ") </script>

Example

last reviewed: January 25, 2008