Just a quick post but it is one that I had to use recently so thought I would quickly make a note of it so that it helps others out.

With the new year coming I had to update a sites copyright year which was displayed in the footer. It was a simple enough thing to do but I feared that I would need to be doing it again this time next year.

The solution was to use PHP to output the current year.

   echo date("Y");

If your server doesn’t support PHP check see if there are any other server side scripting languages such as ASP, Perl, Python or Ruby etc They all have similar functions for returning the current year.

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