function showDate(x){
var months=new Array(13);
months[1]="January";
months[2]="February";
months[3]="March";
months[4]="April";
months[5]="May";
months[6]="June";
months[7]="July";
months[8]="August";
months[9]="September";
months[10]="October";
months[11]="November";
months[12]="December";
var time=new Date();
var lmonth=months[time.getMonth() + 1];
var date=time.getDate();
var year=time.getYear();
var suffix  // grammatical suffix added - Darrin Norton
switch(date){
  case 1:
    suffix="st"
	break
  case 21:
    suffix="st"
	break
  case 31:
    suffix="st"
	break
  case 2:
	suffix="nd"
	break
  case 22:
	suffix="nd"
	break
  case 3:
	suffix="rd"
	break
  case 23:
	suffix="rd"
	break
  default:
    suffix="th"
	}
if (year < 2000)    // Y2K Fix, Isaac Powell
year = year + 1900; // http://onyx.idbsu.edu/~ipowell
var year = time.getFullYear()
if (x == 'yr'){
	document.write(year);
}else{
	document.write(lmonth + " ");
	document.write(date + "<span class='subscr'>" + suffix + "</span>, " + year + "");
}
 browserDetect()
}
// -----------------------------------------------------

function browserDetect(){  //called within date function to sniff for IE6 and swap png for gif file.
	var s = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase(); 
    var isIE6 = /*@cc_on!@*/false && ( parseInt( s.match( /msie (\d+)/ )[1] ) >= 6 );
   	if (isIE6){
	   document.getElementById('pawshldr').innerHTML='<img src="Assets/images/layout/paws.gif" id="paws" alt="pawprint" />';
   	}
}

function externalLinks() {
 if (!document.getElementsByTagName){ 
   return;
 }else{
   var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName("a"); 
   for (var i=0; i<anchors.length; i++) { 
      var anchor = anchors[i]; 
      if (anchor.getAttribute("href") && anchor.getAttribute("rel") == "external"){
         anchor.target = "_blank"; 
      }
   }
 }
} 

window.onload = externalLinks;

function reLoadIt(){
   location.reload(true);
}
window.onresize = reLoadIt;

// -----------------------------------------  for pinging update & getdate scripts

   var pgRequest = "";
   var http_request = false;
   function makeRequest(url,parameters) {
      http_request = false;
      if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari,...
         http_request = new XMLHttpRequest();
         if (http_request.overrideMimeType) {
         	// set type accordingly to anticipated content type
            //http_request.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
            http_request.overrideMimeType('text/html');
         }
      } else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE
         try {
            http_request = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
         } catch (e) {
            try {
               http_request = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
            } catch (e) {}
         }
      }
      if (!http_request) {
         alert('Cannot create XMLHTTP instance');
         return false;
      }
	  pgRequest = url;
      http_request.onreadystatechange = alertContents;
      http_request.open('GET', url + parameters , true);
      http_request.send(null);
   }

   function alertContents() {
      if (http_request.readyState == 4) {
         if (http_request.status == 200) {
            result = http_request.responseText;
			if (pgRequest == "getDate.asp") {
			 yesterday = result;
			 //alert("1 = " + yesterday);
             //document.getElementById('myspan').innerHTML = result;
			}
         } else {
            alert('There was a problem with the request.');
         }
      }
   }
   
   function get(){
      makeRequest('update.asp','?src=ajax');
   }