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The only thing is that is needs an ASP to be your index page. It is possible to do that, but you need your webroot to be &quot;executable&quot; (and all your subdirectories will automatically be executable too).<br />
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The easiest thing is probably client-side javascript, it will display the date of the client, not of the server:<br />
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&lt;script&gt;<br />
Now = new Date();<br />
document.write(Now):<br />
&lt;/script&gt;<br />
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You could also try to use SSI (Server Side Include) but I am afraid that IIS3 does not support the SSI exec command. Anyway, to use SSI you'll have to rename your index file too.<br />
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The only thing is that is needs an ASP to be your index page. It is possible to do that, but you need your webroot to be "executable" (and all your subdirectories will automatically be executable too).

The easiest thing is probably client-side javascript, it will display the date of the client, not of the server:

<script>
Now = new Date();
document.write(Now):
</script>

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You could also try to use SSI (Server Side Include) but I am afraid that IIS3 does not support the SSI exec command. Anyway, to use SSI you'll have to rename your index file too.






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I am using NT4 with IIS3. I have ASP and Perl 5.003 loaded. Is there any way I can get the date from some sort of environment variable and display it on my index page.<br />
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I know how to get it from a perl script, but the script needs some sort of action to run. It won't display anything unless it is executed by some trigger, so it won't work on my index page.<br />
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I simply want to say &quot;Todays date is...whatever&quot; on my home page.<br />
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Thanks.<br />

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I am using NT4 with IIS3. I have ASP and Perl 5.003 loaded. Is there any way I can get the date from some sort of environment variable and display it on my index page.

I know how to get it from a perl script, but the script needs some sort of action to run. It won't display anything unless it is executed by some trigger, so it won't work on my index page.

I simply want to say "Todays date is...whatever" on my home page.

Thanks.


How do I display the date on my index page?

A scripting language is a programming language that supports scripts, programs written for a special run-time environment that automate the execution of tasks that could alternatively be executed one-by-one by a human operator. Scripting languages are often interpreted (rather than compiled). Primitives are usually the elementary tasks or API calls, and the language allows them to be combined into more complex programs. Environments that can be automated through scripting include software applications, web pages within a web browser, the shells of operating systems (OS), embedded systems, as well as numerous games. A scripting language can be viewed as a domain-specific language for a particular environment; in the case of scripting an application, this is also known as an extension language.