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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.

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