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The Date is ok the way you have it. &nbsp;It's a string so doesn't need to be converted.<br />
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Here is a demo of it working: <a href="http://jsbin.com/OHAjOKE/1/edit" rel="ugc">http://jsbin.com/OHAjOKE/1/edit</a>
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The Date is ok the way you have it.  It's a string so doesn't need to be converted.

Here is a demo of it working: http://jsbin.com/OHAjOKE/1/edit [http://jsbin.com/OHAjOKE/1/edit]

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<a href="http://roofgenius.com/test.htm" rel="ugc">http://roofgenius.com/test.htm</a><br />
contents of JavaScriptJS/date.js:<br />
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var myDate = &quot;09/10/2013&quot;<br />
document.write(&quot;Copyright © 2002-2013 Rooofgenius.com All rights reserved.&quot;)&lt;br /&gt;<br />
document.write(&quot;This page last updated: &quot;&nbsp;+ myDate); <br />
what is wrong ?
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http://roofgenius.com/test.htm
contents of JavaScriptJS/date.js:

var myDate = "09/10/2013"
document.write("Copyright © 2002-2013 Rooofgenius.com All rights reserved.")<br />
document.write("This page last updated: " + myDate); 
what is wrong ?

trying to determine why this scripts not working

JavaScript is a dynamic, object-based language commonly used for client-side scripting in web browsers. Recently, server side JavaScript frameworks have also emerged. JavaScript runs on nearly every operating system and  in almost every mainstream web browser.