I notice that when I want to insert a date, it only resets once the page has
been updated.

But I found a few pages on my site that has an automatic date that resets on
its own, and when I tried to edit that page, all I saw was a little yellow box
that looked like a "scroll" was in it.

Here's an example of the page that I need to update to get a new date:
http://naswnyc.org/
Here's the page that does it on its own:
http://naswnyc.org/archives/executive.htm

can someone please help?

Check your source code and you will see the difference:

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http://naswnyc.org/
This page is using this code:

<!-- #BeginDate format:fcAm1 -->Wednesday, August 13, 2008<!-- #EndDate -->

This is created by Contribute and will update once you edit and publish the
updated page.

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http://naswnyc.org/archives/executive.htm
This page is using this code:

<script language="javascript">
//--------------- LOCALIZEABLE GLOBALS ---------------
var d=new Date();
var weekday=new
Array("sunday","monday","tuesday","wednesday","thu rsday","friday","saturday");
var monthname=new
Array("january","february","march","april","jay"," june","july","august","septemb
er","october","november","december");
//Ensure correct for language. English is "monday, january 1 - 2004"
var TODAY = weekday[d.getDay()] + ", " + monthname[d.getMonth()] + " " +
d.getDate() + " - " + d.getFullYear();
//--------------- END LOCALIZEABLE ---------------
</script>

and:

<script language="javascript">
document.write(TODAY);
</script>

This is a javascript that writes the current date to the screen.

ThinkInk:

Thank you for this, but I have another question: how do I insert the javascript code into the other page for the autodate?

When you are using CS3 you can use the >Insert>HTML snippet option. In older versions you can use the >File>Actions>Edit page source in external application.

ThinkInk: THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH! You are like my savior here!