// Takes a date object and returns a string of form: Day DD Month,YYYY (e.g. Sunday 27 September, 1998)
function getLongDateString(alpha)  {	
	monthNames = new Array("January","February","March","April","May","June",
		"July","August","September","October","November","December");
	dayNames = new Array("Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday",
		"Friday","Saturday");

	dayOfWeek = alpha.getDay();
	day = dayNames[dayOfWeek];
	dateOfMonth = alpha.getDate();
	monthNo = alpha.getMonth();
	month = monthNames[monthNo];
	year = alpha.getYear();

    if (year > 1000)
      year = year
    else if (year >= 1 & year <= 60)
      year = year + 2000
    else
      year = year + 1900
	dateStr = day+" "+month+" "+dateOfMonth+", "+year;
	return dateStr;
}

//Return the document modification date (excl.time) as a string
function DocDate()  { 
	DateTimeStr = document.lastModified;
	secOffset = Date.parse(DateTimeStr);
	if (secOffset == 0 || secOffset == null) //Opera3.2
		dateStr = "Unknown";
	else
	{
		aDate = new Date();
		aDate.setTime(secOffset);
		
		//use method defined above
		dateStr = getLongDateString(aDate);
	}
	return dateStr;
}

function todayDate()  {
	DateTimeStr = new Date();
	secOffset = Date.parse(DateTimeStr);
	if (secOffset == 0 || secOffset == null) //Opera3.2
		dateStr = "Unknown";
	else
	{
		aDate = new Date();
		aDate.setTime(secOffset);
		
		//use method defined above
		dateStr = getLongDateString(aDate);
	}
	return dateStr;
}