November 2001
Intermediate to advanced
936 pages
68h 43m
English
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Name
Date.setYear( ) — set the year field of a Date
Availability
JavaScript 1.0; JScript 1.0; ECMAScript v1; deprecated by ECMAScript v3
Synopsis
date.setYear(year)
Arguments
-
year An integer that is set as the year value (in local time) for the Date object
date. If this value is between 0 and 99, inclusive, 1900 is added to it and it is treated as a year between 1900 and 1999.
Returns
The millisecond representation of the adjusted date. Prior to ECMAScript standardization, this method returns nothing.
Description
setYear( ) sets the year field of a specified Date
object, with special behavior for years between 1900 and 1999.
As of ECMAScript v3, this function is no longer required in
conforming JavaScript implementations; use setFullYear( ) instead.