function displayDate() {

<!-- Hide script from older browsers -->
 <!-- Initialize the variable for use below -->
	var fulldate = "";	<!-- Establish a month name array to be used to retrieve a nth's  name -->
	var months = new Array(13);
	months[1]="Jan";
	months[2]="Feb";
	months[3]="Mar";
	months[4]="Apr";
	months[5]="May";	
	months[6]="Jun";
	months[7]="Jul";
	months[8]="Aug";
	months[9]="Sep";
	months[10]="Oct";	
	months[11]="Nov";	
	months[12]="Dec";   
  <!-- Establish a day name array to be used to retrieve a day's proper name -->			
	var days=new Array(8);
	days[1]="Sunday";
	days[2]="Monday";
	days[3]="Tuesday";
	days[4]="Wednesday";
	days[5]="Thursday";
	days[6]="Friday";
	days[7]="Saturday";
 <!-- Get today's date, we will piece this apart below and reconfigure it to display in European Format -->	
	var now = new Date();
 <!-- Get the month value from today's date, then pull its proper name from the month array -->
	var month = months[now.getMonth() + 1];
 <!-- Get the day value from today's date, then pull its proper name from the day array -->
	var day=days[now.getDay() + 1];
 <!-- Get the date value from today's date -->
	var date=now.getDate();
 <!-- Get the year value from today's date -->			
	var year=now.getYear();
 <!-- Today's date was pulled from the user's PC.  Therefore, we are subject to the users date settings. -->	
 <!-- In order to force a 4 character date, we perform the following If/then check -->
 <!-- This takes care of Netscape -->  
	if (year > 100 && year <2000){
               var current_year=now.getYear()-100;
               if(current_year<10)  
                     year = "20" + 0 + current_year;
               else year="20" + current_year;
        }
	else if (year== 100) year=2000;
 <!-- For IE it remains the same as year --> 
<!-- Reformat date to appear in European Format -->
	fulldate =  date + " " + month + " " + year;
      <!-- Display date -->
	document.write (fulldate);
}