233017 - Javascript value of getYear() function returns "104" instead of "2004"

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 22964

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[John Wolf]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

try this yourself -- the variable thisyear should be 2004 not 104
<script language="JavaScript">
		today=new Date();
		var thisyear = today.getYear();
		document.write(thisyear);
</script>

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. create or visit a web page that contains javascript using getYear function
2. verify resulting value
3.

Actual Results:  
value produced should have been four-digit year "2004" -- but instead was three
digits "104" 

Expected Results:  
value should have been four-digit year, in this case "2004"

This anomoly occurred in: 
Firebird 0.7 running under Windows 2000
Firebird 0.7 running under Windows XP pro
Firebird 0.8 running under RedHat Linux 9.0

Comment 1

[Charles Fenwick]

Bug is not specific to Firebird >>Browser-General

Comment 2

[Charles Fenwick]

You have to use getFullYear() for the desired value.

See comment 2 in bug 22964.

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