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JamesKB
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Aug 24, 2005, 7:59 PM
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JS to show files last update date/time?
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HiYa....
I seem to remember there is some code that one can use to display the date/time info of an html document. Any one know what I'm talking about and what it is?
I do know it wont work on all servers but I think it will on mine.
Thanks for your time.
Have a nice day....
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ross
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Aug 25, 2005, 1:25 PM
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Hi James.
Thanks for posting and welcome to the board!
I recal the code that you are talking about. Cliff was working with it in Article Manager so that visitors could see when the article they are view was last updated.
The code looks like this:
<script>
document.write (document.lastModified);
</script>
The only problem is that it doesn’t actually seem like Article Manager sets the last up dated attribute of its files the way that JavaScript needs it to be. So you’ll find that the last updated time always gets set to the current time whenever you load an article. It works perfectly on Listings Manager though .
If you don’t mind me asking, which program were you using?
Keep me up to date on how you are making out with the script .
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JamesKB
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Aug 26, 2005, 4:20 PM
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Thanks for the reply.
The code:
<script>
document.write (document.lastModified);
</script>
Does what I want. I want the guest to site to be able to see when the a given page was last updated.
The only problem with this code is that it renders differantlly in different browsers. For example:
IE6: This file modified on : 08/26/2005 17:21:12 Nashville, Tenn. USA -- This is acceptable to me.
FireFox 1.0.4: This file modified on : Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:21:12 GMT Nashville, Tenn. USA -- This is not acceptable to me. Notice the time is in GMT. I want it to show the same time as it shows in IE6, i.e. USA Centeral Standard Time,
Opera 8.0.2: This file modified on : Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:21:12 GMT Nashville, Tenn. USA -- This also is not acceptable to me because of the time shown as GMT.
Have a look at it at http://www.community-players.com/NoName.html
I've not tried it with any versions of Netscape or AOL, or on a Mac for that matter.
I guess I could test for which browser is being used and if it is FireFox or Opera then set a variable to -5 of what ever the GMT is.
Any other ideas of how to do this other than the above??
Thanks for your time.
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James
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Aug 27, 2005, 2:35 PM
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Hi James,
Thanks for the post!
The document.lastModified statement is pretty raw and is designed to just give you straight output on when the page was last updated.
I did a quick Google search and I found several sites where people had taken the document.lastModified statement and used what it outputs to create a more attractive looking date format.
You can take a look at a couple of pages that have code you might be able to use here:
http://javascript.internet.com/page-details/last-modified.html
http://www.chipchapin.com/WebTools/JavaScript/example1-02.html
If you take a look at these or do a bit of searching you should be able to find some full JavaScript code that will give you the output you're looking for.
I hope this helps and if you have any other questions feel free to let me know!
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