setYear Method

Description

Sets the year value in the Date object.

Syntax

objDate.setYear(numYear)

The numYear argument is a numeric value equal to the year minus 1900.

Remarks

This method is obsolete, and is maintained for backwards compatibility only. Use the setFullYear method instead.

To set the year of a Date object to 1997, call setYear(97). To set the year to 2010, call setYear(2010). Finally, to set the year to a year in the range 0-99, use the setFullYear method.

Note For JScript version 1.0, setYear uses a value that is the result of the addition of 1900 to the year value provided by the numYear, regardless of the value of the year. For example, to set the year to 1899 numYear is -1 and to set the year to 2000 numYear is 100.

The following example illustrates the use of the setYear method:

function SetYearDemo(newyear)
{  
  var d, s;
  d = new Date();
  d.setYear(newyear);
  s = "Current setting is ";
  s += d.toLocaleString(); 
  return(s);
}