November 2001
Intermediate to advanced
936 pages
68h 43m
English
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Name
Date.getYear( ) — return the year field of a Date
Availability
JavaScript 1.0; JScript 1.0; ECMAScript v1; deprecated by ECMAScript v3
Synopsis
date.getYear( )Returns
The year field of the specified
Date object date minus 1900.
Description
getYear( ) returns the year field of a specified
Date object minus 1900. As of ECMAScript v3, it is not required in
conforming JavaScript implementations; use getFullYear( ) instead.
Bugs
Netscape implementations of JavaScript 1.0 through 1.2 subtract 1900 only for years between 1900 and 1999.