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To include an SSI variable simply use the variable name in place of the type of data you want to display. This example shows how to implement the inbuilt #SSI_DATELONG variable to display the current date every time a page is requested.

We start with a very basic HTML page:

<HTML>
    <BODY>
        <H2>Welcome to my page.  The date is 1 January 2012.</H2>
    </BODY>
</HTML>

This is clearly inappropriate because if a user requests your page on, say, 14 February 2013, the date will be incorrect.

So to force the web server to show the correct date, simply substitute the text for the variable name, in this case #SSI_DATELONG.

<HTML>
    <BODY>
        <H2>Welcome to my page.  The date is #SSI_DATELONG.</H2>
    </BODY>
</HTML>

If this page is now requested, it will look as the one below:

The result is that the variable #SSI_DATELONG was replaced by the text '21 September 2012'.