251568 - error operating date in JavaScript

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 22964

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[Serhiy Brytskyy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; uk-UA; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; uk-UA; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707

Running simple javascript on amy version of mozilla gets strange reszult:

<script language="JavaScript">
d = new Date();
day = d.getYear();
document.writeln(day);
</script>

We receive 104 year.
On IE it works well.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

This is correct behavior.  To get your desired result, use getFullYear() instead.

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

Comment 2

[Serhiy Brytskyy]

> This is correct behavior.
Very strange explanation. Even If this was "correct" in 4.7, this should be fixed.
How can I get short year, if I need the short date only? e.g. mm/dd/yy 

Comment 3

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

Remember the Y2K "millennium bug"?

Why do you want two year formats?  If you must have them, nothing prevents you
from doing it yourself, either with string or number manipulation.

Do not reopen this bug again.  It was properly resolved as a duplicate, and we
are not breaking backward compatibility with what Mozilla JS engines have done
since Netscape 2.  The getYear/setYear methods are non-normative ECMA extensions
which you should avoid.

/be

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

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

Verified. You have to use getFullYear(), see bug 45764 comment 1.

Comment 5

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

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