142496 - JS year isn't reported correctly with getYear()

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 22964

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[Rich Sage]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc1)
Gecko/20020417
BuildID:    2002041711

If the following is done (as per example URL http://www.lightcomputers.com/),
the year is occasionally reported incorrectly, vis. year = 102 instead of 2002.

currentDate = new Date();
year = currentDate.getYear();

Upon checking with javscript:new Date(); in the location bar, the year is
returned correectly, just not with getYear().  This has also been found on other
sites.


Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a new browser window or tab
2. Go to URL http://www.lightcomputers.com/


Actual Results:  The year is reported incorrectly, in today's case the date is
Mon May 6 102.

Expected Results:  Reported the year correctly, as in Mon May 6 2002

JS code:

currentDate = new Date();
year = currentDate.getYear();

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

Please see comments in bug 100123 bug 45764
Other bugs with info:
bug 22964
bug 100123
bug 115264


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

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

verified that getYear is not part of the ECMA standard and therefore defined by
backwards-compatibility only.

Comment 3

[Phil Schwartau]

Rich, here is another nice URL on this:

http://wipos.p.lodz.pl/zylla/opera/introdate.html

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 22964 ***