Returns the year of the specified date according to local time.

Method of Date

Syntax

Parameters

None

Description

The value returned by getFullYear is an absolute number. For dates between the years 1000 and 9999, getFullYear returns a four-digit number, for example, 1995. Use this function to make sure a year is compliant with years after 2000.
Use this method instead of the getYear method.

Examples

The following example assigns the four-digit value of the current year to the variable yr.

See also

Date.getYear, Date.getUTCFullYear, Date.setFullYear