It’s a new year, and with that comes the annoying task of updating the copyright dates in the footer of all of your sites.

So this year make a resolution to never, ever do this again and just insert some code to handle the date for you. Examples in a few different languages are included below as well as a javascript version for static HTML pages:

PHP
Just copy, paste, and change the beginning year (shown as 2001)
Copyright © 2001-< ?php echo date("Y"); ?>

OR

Just copy, paste, and change the beginning year (shown as 2001)
< ?php $time = time () ; $year= date("Y",$time) . "<br />“; echo “Copyright 2001 – ” . $year; ?>

ASP
Just copy, paste, and change the beginning year (shown as 2001)
< %response.write("Copyright 2001- "&Year(Date))%>

OR

Just copy, paste, and change the beginning year (shown as 2001)
Copyright © 2001-< %=Year(Date)%>

OR

Just copy, paste, and change the beginning year (shown as 2001)
< % Dim yy yy = DatePart("yyyy",Now()) %>Copyright © 2001-< %=yy%>

ASP.NET (C#)
Just copy, paste, and change the beginning year (shown as 2001)
< %Response.Write(System.DateTime.Now.Year.ToString());%>

Javascript
Just copy, paste, and change the beginning year & company name
<script type="text/javascript"><!-- copyright=new Date();update=copyright.getYear();document.write("Copyright © 2001-"+ update + " (your company name) All rights Reserved."); //--></script>

OR

Just copy, paste, and change the beginning year (shown as 2001)
<script LANGUAGE="JavaScript"><!-- today=new Date(); y0=today.getFullYear(); // end hiding ---></script>Copyright © 2001-<script LANGUAGE="JavaScript"><!--- Hide from old browsers document.write(y0); // end hiding ---></script>