Formatting lastModified

[askohen]

What's the best way to insert a date reflecting the date a page was last modified?

I was thinking of using the javascript lastModified property. I know that results will depend on the browser, but can I somehow customize the output so that just the month and date show?

Here's my code:
<SCRIPT language="JavaScript">
var lm=document.lastModified;
document.write("Last modified: "+ lm)
</SCRIPT>

[pyro]

Yes you can...just split it at the spaces, and only take the first part:

<script type="text/javascript">
var lm=document.lastModified;
lm = lm.split(" ");
document.write("Last modified: "+ lm[0])
</script>

[askohen]

Thanks for your help. -A

[pyro]

You're welcome. :)

[Charles]

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
alert (new Date(document.lastModified).toDateString());
// -->
</script>

[askohen]

What about a way to transform 6/25/2003 to 06 June 2003?

[Charles]

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
Date.prototype.toDateString = function () {return [this.getDate < 10 ? '0' + this.getDate() : this.getDate(), ['January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December'][this.getMonth()], this.getFullYear()].join(' ')}

alert (new Date(document.lastModified).toDateString())
// -->
</script>

[pyro]

<script type="text/javascript">
date = new Date(document.lastModified);
day = date.getDate();
month = date.getMonth();
year = date.getYear();
months = new Array("January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December");
month = months[month];
document.write("Last modified: "+ day +" "+ month +" "+year)
</script>

[askohen]

Cool. When I get a chance I'll try and figure out how you did that. Thanks again.