Displaying current month

[Jon Lawrance]

I want a script that will display the current month and year.

e.g. April 2007

What javascript would I need to do this?

Thanks,

Jon

[Pepejeria]

Start by creating a Date object. Then use the getMonth and the getFullYear to get what you need.

Note that getMonth return a number and not the month name. Number will be 0 to 11. Meaning that you will have to create an Array with the month names to be able to output the name.

[mrhoo]

You will need to store an object that contains the month names-
ideally this would be a language dependent object, but I'll stick to English:

I like to attach a monthnames array, when needed, to the Date object,
but you can attach it to the window, or any object you like:

Date.monthnames= ['January','February','March','April','May','June','July',
'August','September','October','November','December'];

Then you can generate the current date and return the month from the array and the year from getFullYear():

var D=new Date();
var str= Date.monthnames[D.getMonth()]+' '+D.getFullYear();