 // Init certain form items (i.e. dates)...
 function Init() {
	// init the ending date range to today's date
	// only if there is not something there already...
	if (!document.Search.de.value) {
		now = new Date();
 		year = now.getYear();
		if (year < 1000)
			year += 1900	//...getYear() returns YY for less than 2K, YYYY for over
		month = now.getMonth() + 1;
		day = now.getDate();
		document.Search.de.value = year + "-" + month + "-" + day;
	}

	// init the mail list name
	// only if there is not something there already...
	if (!document.Search.l.value) {
		document.Search.l.value = "suzuki";
	}


	return true;
 }

// Check for new messages since last visit...
function NewMessages() {
	// First make sure the defaults are filled in, user may have gotten impatient
	// and clicked this before letting page finish loading (Init() is called only
	// after the page completes loading)
	Init();
	// change the action of the form to go to newmessages.php3...
	document.Search.action = "newmessages.php3";
	document.Search.submit();
	return true;
}

// WM_setCookie(), WM_readCookie(), WM_killCookie()
// A set of functions that eases the pain of using cookies.
// Source: Webmonkey Code Library
// (http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/javascript/code_library/)

// This next little bit of code tests whether the user accepts cookies.
var WM_acceptsCookies = false;
if(document.cookie == '') {
	document.cookie = 'WM_acceptsCookies=yes'; // Try to set a cookie.
	if(document.cookie.indexOf('WM_acceptsCookies=yes') != -1) {
		WM_acceptsCookies = true;	// If it succeeds, set variable
	}
} else {
	WM_acceptsCookies = true;		// there was already a cookie
}

function WM_setCookie (name, value, hours, path, domain, secure) {
	if (WM_acceptsCookies) { // Don't waste your time if the browser doesn't accept cookies.
		var not_NN2 = (navigator && navigator.appName
			&& (navigator.appName == 'Netscape')
			&& navigator.appVersion
			&& (parseInt(navigator.appVersion) == 2))?false:true;

		if(hours && not_NN2) { // NN2 cannot handle Dates, so skip this part
			if ( (typeof(hours) == 'string') && Date.parse(hours) ) { // already a Date string
				var numHours = hours;
			} else if (typeof(hours) == 'number') { // calculate Date from number of hours
				var numHours = (new Date((new Date()).getTime() + hours*3600000)).toGMTString();
			}
		}
		document.cookie = name + '=' + escape(value) + ((numHours)?(';expires=' + numHours):'') + ((path)?';path=' + path:'') + ((domain)?';domain=' + domain:'') + ((secure && (secure == true))?'; secure':''); // Set the cookie, adding any parameters that were specified.
	}
} // WM_setCookie

function WM_readCookie(name) {
	if(document.cookie == '') { // there's no cookie, so go no further
		return false;
	} else { // there is a cookie
		var firstChar, lastChar;
		var theBigCookie = document.cookie;
		firstChar = theBigCookie.indexOf(name);	// find the start of 'name'
		var NN2Hack = firstChar + name.length;
		if((firstChar != -1) && (theBigCookie.charAt(NN2Hack) == '=')) { // if you found the cookie
			firstChar += name.length + 1; // skip 'name' and '='
			lastChar = theBigCookie.indexOf(';', firstChar); // Find the end of the value string (i.e. the next ';').
			if(lastChar == -1) lastChar = theBigCookie.length; {
				return unescape(theBigCookie.substring(firstChar, lastChar));
			}
		} else { // If there was no cookie of that name, return false.
			return false;
		}
	}
} // WM_readCookie

function WM_killCookie(name, path, domain) {
  var theValue = WM_readCookie(name); // We need the value to kill the cookie
  if(theValue) {
      document.cookie = name + '=' + theValue + '; expires=Fri, 13-Apr-1970 00:00:00 GMT' + ((path)?';path=' + path:'') + ((domain)?';domain=' + domain:''); // set an already-expired cookie
  }
} // WM_killCookie
