Altering Date returns timestamp

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I've got this script... if I change the red piece below just to thisNow, I get a date/time string... if I leave it as is, I get a timestamp.

The Parentheses surrounding the value are something I tried just to see if it would change it to a date format, but with or without them I get a timestamp.

  thisNow = new Date();
  for (i = -5; i < 19; i++) {
    hdate = thisNow.setHours( thisNow.getHours() + i );
    if(i > 0) { posneg = '+'; }
    else if(i < 0) { posneg = '-'; }
    else {posneg = ''; }
    document.getElementById('timeOffset').options[i+5].text = [red](thisNow.setHours(thisNow.getHours() + i))[/red];
  }

Also, can anyone help me, I'd like to remove a lot of the date returned and just say for instance..

Dec 9 08:53 AM
Dec 9 09:53 AM
Dec 9 10:53 AM

All the way around the clock.

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[kaht]

Unfortunately javascript has no automatic built in function for date display formatting. However, there are a lot of scripts out there that ppl have written to already do it for you. Here's one that works fine:

http://www.gazingus.org/html/Date_Formatting_Function.html

-kaht