<script language="JavaScript"> var today = new Date(); document.write((today.getMonth() + 1) + " / " + today.getDate() + " / " + today.getFullYear() + "<br />"); </script>

Here is a basic breakdown of what each part means:

• today—the variable that will contain our date information
• new—creates an empty object for storing information; in this case, that object is a date
• Date()—declares the new object as a date; the empty parentheses initialize the date object with the current date information
• (.getMonth() + 1)—this function give us the current month; the entire expression is in parentheses with + 1 included because the .getMonth() gives you a number between 0 and 11 ("0" being January, and "11" being December), so you have to add 1 to the number returned by the function to display the standard numeric months
• .getDate()—this function give us the current day of the month
• .getFullYear()—this function give us the current year, displaying the entire 4-digit year instead of the 2-digit year (a good thing to do, since Y2K issues could affect the output or calculations based on the date)