// Display today's date, e.g. Thursday, 17 March 2005
function displayTodaysDate()
{
   var x = new Array("Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday",
      "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday");
   var z = new Array("January","February","March","April", "May","June",
      "July", "August", "September","October","November","December");
   
   var d = new Date();
   var day = d.getDay();
   var month = d.getMonth();
   
// Assemble the string to display   
   var s = x[day] + ", " + d.getDate() + " " + (z[month]) + " " + (d.getFullYear());
   
   document.write(s);
}

// Test: call the function to display the date
displayTodaysDate();