112130 - Javascript getDate function returns date one day in the future.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 65671

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[Andy Piper]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011013
BuildID:    20011013

The page referenced in the URL shows the date in the top left, based on a piece
of Javascript roughly as follows:

dayName = new Array ("Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday",
"Friday", "Saturday")
monName = new Array ("January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June",
"July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December")
now = new Date
document.write(dayName[now.getDay()] + ", " + monName[now.getMonth()] 
  + " " + now.getDate() + ".") 

In both Mozilla and Galeon, this displays tomorrow's date. In Opera it displays
today's date correctly. There appears to be something wrong in the date parsing
code.

My timezone is GMT. I don't have any environment variables such as TZ set which
would modify this.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit the page in the URL shown.
2. Look at the date in the top left of the left-hand frame.
3.

Actual Results:  Date (and day) displayed as tomorrow.

Expected Results:  Shown today's date and day.

Comment 1

[Karl Johan Kleist]

Build ID: 2001 11 26 03. Windows 2000. My local time is 14:09 GMT+1.

I see "Tuesday, November 27" in the top left corner. That's correct.

Messy Internet Exploder 5.5 says the same, by the way.

Comment 2

[Andy Piper]

That's really weird - I'll recheck with the latest build as soon as I can, but
it's definitely buggy here.

Comment 3

[Gilles Durys]

20011126xx linux trunk.
I see the correct date (currently tuesday 27th)

but there is bug 71605 which is duped to bug 65671.
Marking as such

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 65671 ***

Comment 4

[Phil Schwartau]

Verified Duplicate -

Andy, you are now cc'ed on the other bug; thank you for this report.