Re: Javascript for Date Last Changed & Y2K

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Posted by bill palmer on January 8, 2000 at 3:56:13:

Keep in mind that document.lastModified is a text string.

The following from your script converts a string into a date object

date = new Date(document.lastModified);

What is important to realize is that this string looks different in IE vs. NS.

IE document.lastModified: "01/07/00 11:28:04"
NS document.lastModified: "Friday, January 07, 2000 11:28:04"

They are consistent in that the two digit year is 11 positions back from the end. That means that another string expression would work:

year=document.lastModified.substr(document.lastModified.length-11,2);

BTW:--another idea is to forget formulas and converting to a date object. Just change your pages to print the whole document.lastModified string whatever it may be.

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