337856 - Incorrect display of date derived from a script

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 22964

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Bob Kastigar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3

The following script is included in the above page to get the "Date Last Modified" data for display:
<center>
<script language="JavaScript">  lastModDate = new Date(document.lastModified)
  lastModMonth = lastModDate.getMonth() + 1
  lastModDay = lastModDate.getDate()
  lastModYear = lastModDate.getYear()
  document.write("<I>This Page Last Updated: " + lastModMonth + "/"
+ lastModDay + "/" + lastModYear + "</I>")</script>
<!-- END Javascript for page last update - 'touch' home.htm -->
</center>
This results in a display of today's date at "5/13/106"

The same page viewed with IE displays the date as "5/13/2006"



Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
I think it should display "5/13/06"  or "5/13/2006" instead of "5/13/106"

I'm an amateur at this.  It's quite possible the script I'm using is defective and shows that I don't know what I'm doing.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Since our correct implementation of getYear (which by spec is the current year minus 1900) is fairly rare, the best thing to do is pretend getYear doesn't exist, and never use anything but getFullYear.

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