224265 - Date.getYear() not Y2K compliant.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 22964

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[Darien Brown]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.78 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0)
Build Identifier: Camino 0.7, Firebird 0.7, Mozilla 1.5

(new Date()).getYear();

will return 103 for the year 2003.

Other browsers (Explorer, Safari, Konqueror) all return the Y2K compliant year.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Call (new Date()).getYear()
2. Stare in horror at the pre-Y2K year returned.

Actual Results:  
Returned a non-Y2K compliant year (103)

Expected Results:  
Returned a Y2K compliant year (2003)

The workaround for this is to add 1900 to the date if and only if the current
browser is Mozilla or one of it's cousins. Of course, this isn't always doable -
especially if you are working with dates BEFORE 1900.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

103 is correct

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 45764 ***

Comment 2

[Darien Brown]

Sorry for the duplicate. Didn't show up in the Bugzilla search. Thanks for the
quick response.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> Didn't show up in the Bugzilla search.

That's because you only searched open bugs... (that's the search default,
unfortunately).

Comment 4

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

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