date modified - modi.js

Here's the modi.js file used to display the web date modified on each page

It's called in each web page as in ...

<TITLE>pigsoft(c)2000</TITLE>
<script language="JavaScript" src="../modi.js"></script>
</HEAD>

Here is the contents of the modi.js text file ...

--[ start of file ] 

var n_Date = new Date( document.lastModified );
var dayName = new Array("Sun","Mon","Tue","Wed","Thu","Fri","Sat");
var LongdayName = new Array("Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday");

function table_date()
{
document.write("<table border='3' cellspacing='1' width='100%' height='0'>");
document.write("<tr>");
document.write("<td width='90%' valign='middle' align='center'>");
document.write("Last page update was ");
do_date();      ( NOTE: HERE IT CALLS A FUNCTION WITHIN A FUNCTION )
document.write("</td>");
document.write("</tr>");
document.write("</table>");
}

function do_date()
{
document.write(" ");
document.write( n_Date.getDate() );
document.write("/");
document.write((n_Date.getMonth()+1) );
document.write("/");
document.write( n_Date.getFullYear() );
}

function short_date( string )
{
if( !string ) document.write("Last page update was ");
document.write(dayName[ n_Date.getDay() ]);
do_date();
}

function long_date( string )
{
if( !string ) document.write("Last page update was ");
document.write(LongdayName[ n_Date.getDay() ]);
do_date();
}

function tempstuff()
{
document.write(LongdayName[ n_Date.getDay() ])
document.write(" ");
document.write(n_Date.getDate());
document.write("/");
document.write((n_Date.getMonth()+1));
document.write("/");
document.write(n_Date.getFullYear());
}

--[ end of file (modi.js) ]

It's called when needed like so ...

<script language="JavaScript;>
long_date();
</script>

Long Date out put is like this

OR

<script language="JavaScript;>
short_date();
</script>

Short Date out put is like this

OR

<script language="JavaScript;>
table_date();
</script>

Table Date out put is like this

The "no" option (could be anything) turns off the line "Last page update was "

<script language="JavaScript;>
long_date("no");
</script>

long date out put with 'no' as a condition is like this

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