153229 - date.getYear() minus 1900

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 22964

Description

[Teebo Jamme]

Maybe Mozilla is the one that's right, but:

my2002date = new date(... a 2002 date...)

MS IE my2002date.getYear() returns 2002
Moz 1.0 my2002date.getYear() returns 102 (!)

A work around was easy, but still there'a
discrepancy somewhere.

Maybe this is the same as bug 2183 - sorry if it's the case.

Comment 1

[Tim]

http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/js/core/jsref15/date.html#1193607
explains this. 
http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/js/core/jsref15/date.html#1194138
explains how Date.getYear is, by design, year - 1900.  Also note that the second
link mentions that getYear is deprecated as of JS1.3.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky, bz on IRC]]

This is the correct behavior.  You want getFullYear().

See bug 45764, comment #4 for the full skinny on getYear()

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

Comment 3

[Phil Schwartau]

Verified Duplicate -

Comment 4

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

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