Closed Bug 155995 Opened 22 years ago Closed 20 years ago

JavaScript Date.getYear() function returns the WRONG year.

Categories

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
JavaScript Engine
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 22964

People

(Reporter: tomdkat, Assigned: rogerl)

References

Details

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020513
Netscape/7.0b1
BuildID:    20020530

When I use the Date.getYear() function, I expect to receive "2002" but I get
"201" instead.  This happens in Netscape 7.0PR1 on Linux as well.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open the HTML testcase in the "Additional info" section
2.The year 2002 should appear and NOT "201".
3.

Actual Results:  "201" is returned INSTEAD of "2002".

Expected Results:  "2002" should be returned.

Here is an HTML test case which illustrates the problem:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>

<body>
<script language="JavaScript1.2" type="text/JavaScript">
<!--date=new Date();
var date = new Date();
var year = date.getYear();
document.write("This is the year we get from the javascript->" + year+" which
should read 2002.")
//-->
</script>
</body>
</html>
I don't think this is a bug :-)

getYear() is based on the number of years since 1900 :-)

For full and real date, why not using getFullYear (since JS 1.2 if I am right ?)

Marking this bug as invalid ?
Worksforme in Windows NT, build 2202061104 (1.1a), I'm getting 102. Mozilla
returns a date relative to 1900.

For an explanation, see http://tech.irt.org/articles/js199/ and
http://www.webreference.com/js/tips/000707.html

In JavaScript 1.2 (which you're using here), you should use getFullYear(), to
make sure that your get the full year. Several browsers implemented this in a
different way (relative to 1900, relative to 1970, full year, ...). Unless
you're doing browser-sniffing to correct this, you should use getFullYear().
And it's on of those nasty Y2k bugs too (remember when the sky was supposed to
fall on our heads ?) - everyone had to be careful with the result of those
functions, not just for the implementation in the browser, but also for the Y2K
problem.

You're sure thast you saw '201' ? Not '102' ?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 100123 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Thanks for the info guys!  I opened his bug report in the middle of the night,
so it IS likely that I transposed the digits and meant "102" when I typed "201".

Peace.....
Verified Duplicate -
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Status: VERIFIED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 22964 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago → 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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