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Date.setYear()

Syntax



date.setYear(year)

The setYear() method sets the year in the Date object to the argument year. The argument can be either a four-digit or two-digit integer.

To create a two-digit representation, subtract 1900 from the desired date. The method returns an integer representing the number of milliseconds between midnight January 1, 1970 (GMT) to the new date.



<html>
    <script language="JavaScript">
    <!--
    theDate = new Date();

    document.write("Initial milliseconds=",theDate.getTime());
    document.write("<br>setYear returned ");
    document.write(theDate.setYear(83)," milliseconds.")
    document.write("<br>Final milliseconds=",theDate.getTime());

    -->
    </script>
    </html>