276567 - The Date Object has an error.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 22964

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Liu Bingqian]

Today is Dec 31 2004,this code's result is Dec 31 104

now = new Date();                      
document.write((now.getMonth()+1)+" "+now.getDate()+" "+now.getYear());

Comment 1

[Sterling Bates]

This is actually correct behavior.  You may instead want .getFullYear().  From
the ECMA-262 specification:

---
Date.prototype.getYear()
This function is specified here for backwards compatibility only. The function
getFullYear is much to be preferred for nearly all purposes, because it avoids
the “year 2000 problem.”
1. Let t be this time value.
2. If t is NaN, return NaN.
3. Return YearFromTime(LocalTime(t)) - 1900.
---

In this case, YearFromTime(LocalTime(t)) - 1900 = 104.

Comment 2

[Erik Fabert]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58241 ***

Comment 3

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

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