123433 - internet.com - Y2K failure in date script due to getYear()

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Tony Tovar]

This web-site includes a javascript to add the current date to each page.  It
works fine in IE 5.5 but reports "Feb. 4, 102" in Mozilla.

The code reads:
 <script LANGUAGE="JavaScript" src =" /java/date.js">
which I assume is referring to the file at:
 http://cws.internet.com/java/date.js
 
(This might be caused by my AdSubtract proxy but I'm pretty sure I've bypassed
it while testing this.)

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 65681 ***

Comment 2

[Phil Schwartau]

Verified Duplicate. Here is the relevant portion of the other bug:

> The use of Date.getYear() was deprecated in favour of .getFullYear()
> (which returns the full four-digit value for the year). See bug 22964 
> for further information on this -

Comment 3

[Phil Schwartau]

And to be complete, here is the offending code from
view-source:http://cws.internet.com/java/date.js

var months=new Array(13);
months[1]="January";
months[2]="February";
months[3]="March";
months[4]="April";
months[5]="May";
months[6]="June";
months[7]="July";
months[8]="August";
months[9]="September";
months[10]="October";
months[11]="November";
months[12]="December";

var time=new Date();
var lmonth=months[time.getMonth() + 1];
var date=time.getDate();
var year=time.getYear();

if (year < 100) {
        year = "19" + time.getYear() }
else if (year == 100) {
        year = "2000" }
else {
        year=time.getYear() }

document.write(lmonth + " " + date + ", " + year)

Comment 4

[Phil Schwartau]

Better: reopen this for Evangelism

Comment 5

[Phil Schwartau]

Reassigning to Tech Evangelism; the site should use getFullYear(),
not the deprecated getYear() function

Comment 6

[Adrian Ulrich]

*** Bug 145906 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Frankie]

Contact address is [e-mail]

Comment 8

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 9

[Andrew]

Trouble is, getYear() is still supported on other browsers.  People viewing the
same site in IE and Mozilla will have the opinion that Mozilla "is ****" because
it shows 103 (for 2003) and IE shows 2003.

There's no way you can "Tech Evangalise" to all those web developers out there,
so how about putting this bug in the "to be fixed" queue again.

Cheers
Andrew

Comment 10

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

contact info [e-mail]

Comment 11

[Álvaro González]

Attachment: Test case

This test case returns 103 as current year.
If "deprecated" means "possibly not working" this bug should be closed as
WONTFIX.

Comment 12

[Jesse Ruderman]

Andrew: Discussion about changing getYear() in Mozilla belongs in bug 22964, not
here.

Alvaro: This is a tech evang bug.  Tech evang bugs are usually left open until
the site (in this case, http://cws.internet.com/reviews/plugins-shock.html)
fixes itself.

Comment 13

[Travis Chase]

The date script no longer exists, it just forwards back to the homepage and
there is no date to be found on any page

marking fixed

Comment 14

[Frankie]

v