function homepageMessage(siteName) {
   var startDate = 0;
   var expDate   = 0;

   fetch_unix_timestamp = function() {
      return parseInt(new Date().getTime().toString().substring(0, 10));
   }
   var currenttimestamp = fetch_unix_timestamp();

   if (startDate < currenttimestamp &&  currenttimestamp < expDate) {
      document.write ("   <div id='site_notification'>   ");
      document.write ("      <strong>Notice:</strong> We have updated our <a href='/mb/privacy.php'>privacy policy</a> and <a href='/mb/subagreement.php'>subscriber agreement</a> as of October 20, 2009.    ");
      document.write ("   </div>   ");
   }
}