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This method is obsolete, and is maintained for backwards compatibility only.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.

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);
}