Uncle Jim's Web Designs: Auto Expiring Content

COPY - Insert Inside Body: <BODY></BODY>

// Set the dates below
var goLiveDate = "20051215";
var expireDate = "20061231";

var expireYear = expireDate.substring(0,4)
var expireMonth = expireDate.slice(4,-2)
var expireDay = expireDate.slice(6)
var liveYear = goLiveDate.substring(0,4)
var liveMonth = goLiveDate.slice(4,-2)
var liveDay = goLiveDate.slice(6)
var nowDate = new Date();
var day = nowDate.getUTCDate();
var month = nowDate.getUTCMonth();
var month1 = month + 1;
  if (month1 < 10)
  {
  month1 = "0" + month1;
  }
  if (day < 10)
  {
  day = "0" + day;
  }
var year = nowDate.getYear();
var GMTdate = year + "" + month1 + "" + day
if ((GMTdate < expireDate) && (GMTdate >= goLiveDate))
{

// Insert the text you want displayed below
document.write("<div align='center'><b>This content appeared on " + liveMonth + "/" + liveDay + "/" + liveYear + "<br>and will disappear on " + expireMonth + "/" + expireDay + "/" + expireYear +".</b></div>")

}
//--></script>

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Auto Expiring Content

Author: Jim Stiles