Closed
Bug 192481
Opened 22 years ago
Closed 20 years ago
Y2K bug ! Date().getYear() reports 103 instead of 2003
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(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)
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(Reporter: ejb4u, Assigned: rogerl)
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Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 I've just seen a page giving the age of someone using Javascript. The age was - 1864 years. This was a known bug in Netscape 4.x, but I thought it was fixed in Mozilla. To see the bug, go the the Javascript console and type : new Date().getYear() => it gives 103 instead of 2003. This bug should be easy to fix. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Tools -> Web development -> JavaScript Console 2. Type: new Date().getYear() 3. Press Enter Actual Results: 103 is displayed Expected Results: 2003 should have been displayed (I'm writing this in Year 2003!)
Comment 1•22 years ago
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This is as it should be, surprisingly enough. Quoting Phil Schwartau: "The upshot is d.getYear() was deprecated in the ECMA-262 standard in favor of d.getFullYear() Here are various bugs with further information on this: bug 22964 bug 45764 <--- particuarly see last comment in this one for the history of this bug 100123 bug 115264" *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 45764 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Comment 2•22 years ago
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Verified "make sure you know what you're talking about"
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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Comment 3•22 years ago
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Thanks for the reference to http://developer.netscape.com/viewsource/wyner_2k/wyner_2k.html which explains a lot. Returning more than 100 for years >2000 was considered a bug a few years ago, and as the article explains I remenber seeing the getYear() returning "2000". I didn't know the spec had changed back to what was considered a bug before... My conclusion is that using getDate() is inapprorpriate, getFullYear() should always be used.
Status: VERIFIED → CLOSED
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Comment 4•22 years ago
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I meant : My conclusion is that using getYear() is inapprorpriate, getFullYear() should always be used.
Updated•20 years ago
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Status: CLOSED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
Comment 5•20 years ago
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 22964 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago → 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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