Shortest way to print current year in a website

Question

I need to update a few hundred static HTML pages that have the copyright date hard coded in the footer. I want to replace it with some JavaScript that will automatically upd

Answer 1

TJ's answer is excellent but I ran into one scenario where my HTML was already rendered and the document.write script would overwrite all of the page contents with just the date year.

For this scenario, you can append a text node to the existing element using the following code:

    ©
    
        
    
    Company Name