65681 - time.getYear() returns wrong year

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 22964

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[Ari Pollak]

Go to http://www.neu.edu in Mozilla (Linux), and look at the date. instead of
year 2001, it shows year 3901..?? Looks like a bug time.getYear(). I have
reports that this works on a Mac in IE.

Comment 1

[Cormac F]

Nope, time.getYear() works fine. 
The problem with this site is that it checks if the user-agent is 'Netscape' and
if so, adds 1900 to time.getYear() before displaying it, as below:
...
if (navigator.appName == "Netscape")
year=1900 + year;
...
Don't know why.Perhaps in response to some Y2K bug in an older version of
Netscape? Clumsy way of doing it.
If so, I suppose this might go to Evangelism. Otherwise, Invalid.

Comment 2

[Ari Pollak]

Yeah, i guess.

Comment 3

[Phil Schwartau]

The use of Date.getYear() was deprecated in favour of .getFullYear()
(which returns the full four-digit value for the year). See bug 22964 
for further information on this -


Verifying Invalid - 

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 123433 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

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

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