JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Fourth Edition

Name

Date.setUTCFullYear( ) — set the year, month, and day (universal time)

Availability

JavaScript 1.2; JScript 3.0; ECMAScript v1

Synopsis

                  date.setUTCFullYear(year)
date.setUTCFullYear(year, month)
date.setUTCFullYear(year, month, day)

Arguments

year

The year, expressed in universal time, to be set in date. This argument should be an integer that includes the century, such as 1999, not be an abbreviation, such as 99.

month

An optional integer, between 0 and 11 that is used as the new value (in universal time) of the month field of date.

day

An optional integer, between 1 and 31 that is used as the new value (in universal time) of the day-of-month field of date.

Returns

The internal millisecond representation of the adjusted date.