function getLongDateString()

{	//method defined on class Date.
	//Returns a date string of the form: Day DD Month,YYYY
	//(e.g. Sunday 27 September, 1998)

monthNames = new Array("January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December");
dayNames = new Array("Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday");

	dayOfWeek = this.getDay();
	day = dayNames[dayOfWeek];
	dateOfMonth = this.getDate();

monthNo = this.getMonth();
	month = monthNames[monthNo];

year = this.getYear();
	if (year < 2000)
year = year + 1900;

dateStr = day+", "+month+" "+dateOfMonth+", "+year;
	return dateStr;
}
//register the  method in the class Date
Date.prototype.getLongDateString=getLongDateString;

function DocDate()
{ //return the document modification date (excl.time)
//as a string

	DateTimeStr = document.lastModified;

	secOffset = Date.parse(DateTimeStr);

	if (secOffset == 0 || secOffset == null) //Opera3.2

			 dateStr = "Unknown";
	else

	{
		aDate = new Date();
		aDate.setTime(secOffset);
		//use method defined above
		datestr = aDate.getLongDateString();
	}
	return dateStr;
}