91853 - bit.pt - displays "year 19101" (getYear, y2k)

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Portuguese, defect)

Description

[andrelourenco]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010628
BuildID:    2001062815

at www.bit.pt we can see a date (portuguese):
Domingo, 22 de Julho de 19101

19101 should be 2001

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to www.bit.pt
2.check a date (in portuguese) near the top-right corner
3.

Actual Results:  the year 2001 appears as 19101

Expected Results:  2001

this is the script that generates the date:

<script>

var mydate=new Date()

			var year=mydate.getYear()

			if (year<2000)

			year="19"+year

			var day=mydate.getDay()

			var month=mydate.getMonth()

			var daym=mydate.getDate()

			if (daym<10)

			daym="0"+daym

			var dayarray=new Array("Domingo","Segunda Feira","Terça Feira","Quarta
Feira","Quinta Feira","Sexta Feira","Sábado")

			var montharray=new
Array("Janeiro","Fevereiro","Março","Abril","Maio","Junho","Julho","Agosto","Setembro","Outubro","Novembro","Dezembro")

			document.write("<small><font color='#FFFFFF' face='Arial'><b>"+dayarray[day]+",
"+daym+" de "+montharray[month]+" de "+year+"</b></font></small>")

	 </script>

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

See bug 45764 and bug 22964 for why getYear returns what it does in 4.x and in 
Mozilla.  The site should use mydate.getFullYear(), which returns a four-digit 
year in 4.x, Mozilla, and IE.

-> evang, confirmed.

Comment 2

[Phil Schwartau]

Jesse is correct -

getYear() returns the number of years after 1900, i.e. 101.
Since this is <2000, the code above adds a "19" in front of it: 19101.

getFullYear() is the function to use - it will return 2001 as desired. 

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

All Evangelism Bugs are now in the Product Tech Evangelism. See bug 86997 for
details.

Comment 4

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

-> Euro

Comment 5

[z-aillon.c-obsolete2]

Moving to new component "West Europe".  European component is being removed. 
See bug 95808 for details.

Comment 6

[Wim Roffel]

In Mozilla 9.4 getYear returns 101 for 2001.

This is not correct. Function getYear is defined to return year minus 1900 for
years until 2000 and the full year after 2000.

So: for 1999 getYear should return 99
 - for 2001 getYear should return 2001

Comment 7

[z-aillon.c-obsolete2]

No it's not. See the aforementioned bug 22964 and bug 45764 for more explanation.

Comment 8

[Tristan Nitot]

contact info found here: http://www.bit.pt/contactos.htm
General contact: [e-mail]
Director, Pedro Amaral: [e-mail]

But this seems to be fixed on build 2001111303 on win2k and also on a recent
build on Linux. Marking Resolved fixed.

Comment 9

[z-aillon.c-obsolete2]

Yep, fixed.  Verifying on linux 2001112008-

Comment 10

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg