201531 - javascript interprets date wrongly

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 22964

(Rhino Graveyard :: Core, defect)

Description

[manohar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

<script language="JavaScript">
HoldDate=new Date();
document.write(HoldDate.getDate() + "/" + (HoldDate.getMonth()+1) + "/" +
HoldDate.getYear());
</script>

date should read  (current day) / (current month) / (current year)

2003 (year) is read as 103.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.use the script above
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
year 2003 is read as 103.

Expected Results:  
year must be read accurately

Comment 1

[Phil Schwartau]

The getYear() method has been deprecated; use getFullYear() instead.
That will work in any browser -

For a history on how the spec changed on this, and how Microsoft 
and Netscape came to differ on getYear(), see bug 45764 comment 4.

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

Comment 2

[Phil Schwartau]

Marking Verified.

manohar: thank you for this report; this issue comes up from time to time -

Comment 3

[Igor Bukanov]

Targeting as resolved against 1.5R5