filling today's date in a form

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In article <e1ujkb$438q$1 at netnews.upenn.edu>, Kun <neurogasm at gmail.com> 
wrote:

>... but i am 
>wondering if there is a way to create a button which would automatically 
>insert today's date in the date form field if the user chooses to use 
>today's date.

If you're going to have a button to do it, then the button might as well 
invoke a JavaScript sequence to fill in the field. No sense bothering 
the server with something this simple.