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jQuery Get Current Year (Dynamic Footer/Copyright)

By Sam Deering March 04, 2011

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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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?
http://sutekisushi.com 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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