JavaScript getYear() Method: Date Object

Last update on August 19 2022 21:50:37 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

Description

The getYear() method is used to get the year of a given date according to local time.

The getYear() method returns the year minus 1900; thus:

* For years above 2000, the value returned by getYear() is 100 or greater. For example, if the year is 2009, getYear() returns 109.

* For years between and including 1900 and 1999, the value returned by getYear() is between 0 and 99. For example, if the year is 1976, getYear() returns 76.

* For years less than 1900 or greater than 1999, the value returned by getYear() is less than 0. For example, if the year is 1800, getYear() returns -100.

For years before and after 2000, you should use Date.getFullYear() instead of getYear() so that the year is specified in full.

Version

Implemented in JavaScript 1.3

Syntax

getYear()

Example:

In the following web document getYear() method returns the current year according to local time.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>JavaScript date object - getYear() method example</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1 style="color: red">JavaScript date object : getYear() method</h1>
<hr />
<script type="text/javascript">
//This is done to make the following JavaScript code compatible to XHTML. <![CDATA[
current_date = new Date()
cmm = current_date.getYear()
document.write(cmm)
//]]>
</script>
</body>
</html>

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Supported Browser

Internet Explorer 7	Firefox 3.6	Google Chrome 7	Safari 5.0.1	Opera 10
Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

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