Array.prototype.exists = function (x) {
    for (var i = 0; i < this.length; i++) {
        if (this[i] == x) return true;
    }
    return false;
}

Date.prototype.formatDate = function (input,time) {
    // formatDate :
    // a PHP date like function, for formatting date strings
    // See: http://www.php.net/date
    //
    // input : format string
    // time : epoch time (seconds, and optional)
    //
    // if time is not passed, formatting is based on 
    // the current "this" date object's set time.
    //
    // supported:
    // a, A, B, d, D, F, g, G, h, H, i, j, l (lowercase L), L, 
    // m, M, n, O, r, s, S, t, U, w, W, y, Y, z
    //
    // unsupported:
    // I (capital i), T, Z    

    var switches =    ["a", "A", "B", "d", "D", "F", "g", "G", "h", "H", 
                       "i", "j", "l", "L", "m", "M", "n", "O", "r", "s", 
                       "S", "t", "U", "w", "W", "y", "Y", "z"];
    var daysLong =    ["Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", 
                       "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"];
    var daysShort =   ["Sun", "Mon", "Tue", "Wed", 
                       "Thu", "Fri", "Sat"];
    var monthsShort = ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr",
                       "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep",
                       "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"];
    var monthsLong =  ["January", "February", "March", "April",
                       "May", "June", "July", "August", "September",
                       "October", "November", "December"];
    var daysSuffix = ["st", "nd", "rd", "th", "th", "th", "th", // 1st - 7th
                      "th", "th", "th", "th", "th", "th", "th", // 8th - 14th
                      "th", "th", "th", "th", "th", "th", "st", // 15th - 21st
                      "nd", "rd", "th", "th", "th", "th", "th", // 22nd - 28th
                      "th", "th", "st"];                        // 29th - 31st
  
    function Y() {
        // A full numeric representation of a year, 4 digits

        // we first check, if getFullYear is supported. if it
        // is, we just use that. ppks code is nice, but wont
        // work with dates outside 1900-2038, or something like that
        if (self.getFullYear) {
            var newDate = new Date("January 1 2001 00:00:00 +0000");
            var x = newDate .getFullYear();
            if (x == 2001) {              
                // i trust the method now
                return self.getFullYear();
            }
        }
        // else, do this:
        // codes thanks to ppk:
        // http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/js/introdate.html
        var x = self.getYear();
        var y = x % 100;
        y += (y < 38) ? 2000 : 1900;
        return y;
    }
        
    var self = this;
    if (time) {
        // save time
        var prevTime = self.getTime();
        self.setTime(time);
    }
    
    var ia = input.split("");
    var ij = 0;
    while (ia[ij]) {
        if (ia[ij] == "\\") {
            // this is our way of allowing users to escape stuff
            ia.splice(ij,1);
        } else {
            if (switches.exists(ia[ij])) {
                ia[ij] = eval(ia[ij] + "()");
            }
        }
        ij++;
    }
    // reset time, back to what it was
    if (prevTime) {
        self.setTime(prevTime);
    }
    return ia.join("");
}

d = new Date("April 16 1981 01:30:00");
now = new Date();

document.write("&copy;");
document.write(now.formatDate("Y"));