175253 - Date.getYear() gives the wrong result

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 22964

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[Wolf550e]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910

I get a wrong year value for the current date. Month and day are correct though,
so  something is wrong with the year function and not with the time on my PC.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
var time=new Date();
var y = time.getYear();
var m = time.getMonth()+1;
var d = time.getDate();
document.write(y+'/'+m+'/'+d);
</script>
Actual Results:  
102/10/18

Expected Results:  
2002/10/18

Other browsers give correct and expected results, so it's not my code...

Comment 1

[Wolf550e]

Maybe it is something in my system, but what can it be?
Upgraded to Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b)
Gecko/20021016, and it's still there.

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

This is INVALID, see:
http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/communicator/jsref/core3.htm#1013157

To get the full year, use 
var y = time.getFullYear();

Comment 3

[José Jeria]

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

Comment 4

[Phil Schwartau]

Marking Verified Duplicate.

Also see these bugs, where this was discussed in more detail. In particular,
the history of how Netscape and IE came to differ on the getYear() method.

bug 22964
bug 45764

As José says, the method to use is getFullYear() instead -

Comment 5

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

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