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By Sam Deering March 04, 2011

jQuery Get Current Year (Dynamic Footer/Copyright)

By Sam Deering

JavaScript code snippet to automatically insert the correct year into your footer (so you don’t have to update it ever again!).

Example: Copyright © 2011

Copyright &copy;

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jquery dynamic copyright notice, jquery dynamic footer, jquery get current year, jquery get year, jquery show current year

Meet the author

Sam Deering

Sam Deering is a Front-end Web Developer who specialises in JavaScript & jQuery. Sam is driven and passionate about sharing his knowledge to educate others.

Ben Peeters

This is not jQuery, plain JavaScript.

It’s useful though!

Ben
- skylinejaya
  
  Ben, i feel familiar with ur name
jquery4u

Good point Ben! Any ideas how we can spice it up abit with some jQuery?
suteki

its working.. thanks mate
skylinajaya

yes, i’m searching everywhere and this is most usefull and simple for me.. thanks
kiyone

Perfection. Thank you.

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