Name

Date.getYear() — return the year field of a Date

Availability

deprecated

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.

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