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Using Server Side Includes

The Config Command

To configure the how the date commands display their information (DATE_GMT, DATE_LOCAL and LAST_MODIFIED), use the CONFIG command.  The syntax for this command is:

<!--#config timefmt="FORMATTING_GOES_HERE" -->,

where FORMATTING_GOES_HERE is any combination of the following formatting codes:

For example if I wanted to display the current time in the format Month dd, YYYY; I would insert the following code into my HTML document:

<!--#config timefmt="%B %d, %Y"-->
<!--#echo var="DATE_LOCAL"-->

which would yield the following output:

Friday, 05-Sep-2008 18:54:21 EDT

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