Putting the Current Date into a Web Page

JavaScript can determine the current date and time from your computer (which it gets as a number) and then manipulate that figure in many ways. Your script has to handle the conversion from a number the computer uses into a textual date you can understand, however. Script 12.1 shows how to get the current date, convert it from a number into a standard date, and then write the result to a document window.

To put the current date into a Web page:

1. 
window.onload = initDate;
When the document loads, call initDate().
2. 
var dayName = new Array("Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday");
First, we need to create a new array that contains the days of the week. Make sure to ...

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