A nice-looking date, like:
Monday, December 03, 2007
function showDate() {
calendar = new Date();
day = calendar.getDay();
month = calendar.getMonth();
date = calendar.getDate();
year = calendar.getYear();
if (year < 1000)
year += 1900
cent = parseInt(year / 100);
g = year % 19;
k = parseInt((cent - 17) / 25);
i = (cent - parseInt(cent / 4) - parseInt((cent - k) / 3) + 19 * g + 15) % 30;
i = i - parseInt(i / 28) * (1 - parseInt(i / 28) * parseInt(29 / (i + 1)) * parseInt((21 - g) / 11));
j = (year + parseInt(year / 4) + i + 2 - cent + parseInt(cent / 4)) % 7;
l = i - j;
emonth = 3 + parseInt((l + 40) / 44);
edate = l + 28 - 31 * parseInt((emonth / 4));
emonth--;
var dayname = new Array ("Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday");
var monthname = new Array ("January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December" );
document.write(dayname[day] + ", ");
document.write(monthname[month] + " ");
if (date < 10)
document.write("0" + date + ", ");
else
document.write(date + ", ");
document.write(year);
}
Call the Javascript function in your HTML using the following
<script type="text/javascript">showDate()</script>