How the European Space Agency Writes the Date to Its Page
The JavaScript used by the European Space Agency is very much like the code I used for the Book of JavaScript web page. One big difference between the two is that the ESA prints out the month using abbreviations like Jan and Feb for January and February. They do this using arrays, a topic discussed in Chapter 8, so in Figure 2-13 I've modified their code a bit to focus on topics covered so far.
Figure 2-13. How the European Space Agency writes the date to its page
Everything here should look very familiar to you, except for ❶ and ❷, which will make more sense after you've read Chapter 3. If ...
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