Manipulating the clipboard

Is it possible to manipulate the clipboard? Here's my problem. On the site I am working on I need the user to be able to hit ctrl+t and the date is pasted wherever they have the cursor (assuming it is in a text field). I have the key command and the date code figured out. but I cannot figure out who to get it into that field. The site is very complex and it would be alot of trouble to rewrite the input field to add it to the value so I was hoping there was a clip board way. I saw on the msdn site some dhtml code that I thought may work but I dont quite understand it at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...commandids.asp .
If anyone has any ideas or suggestions I would be very appreciative :)
Thanks in advance,
Michael

if the input is already on the clip board and the cursor is already in the text field, then why hit ctrl-t when all you have to do is ctrl-v. and you don't have to program anything.

The text isn't already on the clipboard... thats part of the problem. I need to figure out how to put it there then paste from it all in one function.