// date stuff used in cached pages
var dayofweek= new Array("Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday");
var dayofmonth= new Array("","1st","2nd","3rd","4th","5th","6th","7th","8th","9th","10th","11th","12th","13th","14th","15th","16th","17th","18th","19th","20th","21st","22nd","23rd","24th","25th","26th","27th","28th","29th","30th","31st");
var months= new Array("January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December");

// returns todays date as a formated string
function theDate(){
	var mydate=new Date();
	var year=mydate.getYear();
	if (year < 1000) year+=1900;
	var day=mydate.getDay();
	var month=mydate.getMonth();
	var daym=mydate.getDate();
	todaysDate="  "+dayofweek[day]+" "+dayofmonth[daym]+" "+months[month]+" "+year;
	return todaysDate;
}

// returns todays date as a formated string
function theYear(){
	var mydate=new Date();
	var year=mydate.getYear();
	if (year < 1000) year+=1900;
	return year;
}

// Set-up external links for XHTML where the target attribute has been deprecated
function externalLinks() { 
	 if (!document.getElementsByTagName) return; 
	 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"; 
		  }
	 }
	 var forms = document.getElementsByTagName("form");
	 for (var j=0; j <forms.length; j++)
	 {
		  var form = forms[j];
		  if (form.getAttribute("id") != null && form.getAttribute("id").indexOf("pollform") == 0)
		  {
				form.target = "_blank";
		  }
	 }
}