131280 - Date script does not work

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Max]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311
BuildID:    2002031104

When going on http://maximusonline.netfirms.com/ , the date script at the top
right corner doesn't work. Instead of displaying '2002' , it displays '102'. In
Internet Explorer, it displays '2002'.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://maximusonline.netfirms.com/
2. You will see the date script at the top doesn't display '2002'. It displays
'102'.

Actual Results:  It displayed '102' instead of '2002'.

Expected Results:  It should have displayed '2002'.

The Konqueror Web browser also seems to have this bug.

Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

Page uses JavaScript code:

[...]
Year = (myvar.getYear())

Marking dupe of bug 100123.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 100123 ***

Comment 2

[Phil Schwartau]

Olivier is right, but let me re-open this bug so the site can be
evangelized. Here is the JavaScript they use to print the date:

myvar = new Date();
Month = (myvar.getMonth() + 1)
Year = (myvar.getYear())

if (Month == 1) {WordMonth = "January";}
              etc.
document.write(WordMonth +  " " +  myvar.getDate()  + ", "  + Year);

Comment 3

[Phil Schwartau]

Reassigning to Tech Evangelism.

The getYear() method is behaving according to spec.
(see ECMA-262 Edition 3 Final, Section B.2.4)
This is available at http://www.mozilla.org/js/language


The getYear() method has been superseded by the getFullYear() method.
For more details, see bug 22964 and bug 45764.

Although IE behaves differently on this, the site should use
getFullYear(), not getYear().

Comment 4

[Max]

The site should use getfullyear() (and it does now!) but some sites won't change
their code to this - thus, getyear() should be put into mozillla too to avoid
millions of sites having to change their code!

Comment 5

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Resolving Fixed

This site has been changed now.