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document.write(setDate())



function setDate() {

        // initialize accumulative HTML variable to empty string

        var text = "" 

        

        // set standard convention for digit and punctuation images 

        var openImage = "<IMG SRC=\"" + getPath(location.href) + "dg"

        var closeImage = ".gif\" >"



        // initialize time-related variables with current date settings

        var now = new Date()

        var month = now.getMonth()

        var date = now.getDate()

        var year = now.getFullYear()

        now = null



        // convert integer value of month to standard range

        month++ // 0 - 11 => 1 - 12



        // convert minute and hour values to strings

        month += ""

        date += ""

        year += ""



        // assign image tags associated with month to text variable 

        for (var i = 0; i < date.length; ++i) {

                text += openImage + date.charAt(i) + closeImage

        }

        

        // assign image tag of period separator to text variable

        text += openImage + "p.gif\" >" 



        // assign image tags associated with date to text variable 

        for (var i = 0; i < month.length; ++i) {

                text += openImage + month.charAt(i) + closeImage

        }



        // assign another image tag of period separator to text variable

        text += openImage + "p.gif\">" 



        // assign image tags associated with year to text variable 

        for (var i = 0; i < year.length; ++i) {

                text += openImage + year.charAt(i) + closeImage

        }



        // return accumulative HTML string

        return text

}



function getPath(url) {

        lastSlash = url.lastIndexOf("/")

        return url.substring(0, lastSlash + 1)

}



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