267028 - The Date.getYear() function fails for years >2000, e.g. returns 104 instead of 2004

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 22964

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Rick Jones]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1

The following JS code does not return 2004 as expected, it returns 104.

var today = new Date();
todayyear = today.getYear();

A Y2k bug in a new product? :(

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Use e.g. the above code in a Javascript routine to validate a form. If it, say,
requires the current year to be >2000 the form will always fail.



I encountered this in a form on an ecommerce site. I was unable to submit my
booking using Firefox, I had to resort to IE - ack! The form's validation logic
was not wrong, but it assumed getYear() would return the year as a 4-digit number.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

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

Comment 2

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

--> Websites :: www.mozilla.com so timeless can close out Firefox :: Product Site.

Comment 3

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

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