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Old Aug 9th, 2004, 21:34
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that sort of javascript, with the document.write(), you can't put in an external javascript file. However, you can do this:

You can put the string that you want to write into the page in an external javascript file in a variable like this:

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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")

datestring = "<font color='ffffff' face='verdana' size='1'>"+montharray[month]+" "+daym+", "+year+"<\/b>";
and then just write it to the page with this code exactly where you want it on the page:

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<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript1.2">
<!--

document.write(datestring);

//-->
</script>
just dont forget to add in the <head>:

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<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript1.2" src="external.js">
where external.js is the name of your external javascript file