261399 - java script adding 1 to getYear() makes 105 instead of 2005

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 22964

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[R J]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

a .asp page i'v made. Has a java script function that looks like this :
d = new Date();
jaar = d.getYear();
jaar = jaar+1;
jaar = jaar.toString();
jaar1 = jaar.substring(0,4);
alert(jaar1);  

the alert shows 105 instead of 2005. IE6 does this right.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

Use getFullYear to get your desired result.
IE is doing it wrong.

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

Comment 2

[Jim diGriz]

Use getFullYear instead:

<http://www.google.com/search?as_q=javascript+getyear&num=30>

For compatibility with older browsers that don't support getFullYear see:

<http://www.quirksmode.org/js/introdate.html#sol>
<http://sys-con.com/story/?storyid=34119>
<http://developer.netscape.com/viewsource/goodman_2k.html>
and so on and so on.

Google is a vastly underutilised resource I fear.

JdG

Comment 3

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

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