233092 - Year of date incorrect : 104 instead of 2004

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 22964

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[Hubert Canevet]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr-FR; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

The date is displayed by this script :
Nous sommes le :
<script>
d = new Date();
min=d.getMinutes();
if (min<10)
	{
	dizmin="0";
	}
else
	{
	dizmin="";
	}
document.write(d.getDate(),"/",d.getMonth()+1,"/",d.getYear() ," il est :
",d.getHours(),":",dizmin,min);
</SCRIPT><br>

Mozilla displays "Nous sommes le : 4/2/104 il est : 23:01"
whereas Ms-IE displays "Nous sommes le : 4/2/2004 il est : 23:01"

This latter format is the good one, it seems.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Just load the page

Actual Results:  
The year is displayed with year 104

Expected Results:  
The year should have been displayed with year 2004 as with Ms-Internet Explorer

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

No, you have to use getFullYear() to retrieve the correct date. Netscape could
never fix getYear() for reasons of backwards compatibility. See bug 22964 comment 2.

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

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Forget backwards compat, actually.  The ECMAScript spec explicitly says that
getYear returns year-1900.