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ActionScripting Basics: Basic Date Functions

By Adrien-Luc Sanders, About.com

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Flash can use ActionScripting to check your system for the current date, and then display it on-screen in a text box. Which means that we’ll need a text box to write the information to, so use the Text Tool to draw one on your stage. Place whatever text you’d like in it.
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