setFullYear Method

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11/16/2012

Sets the year value in the Date object using local time.

function setFullYear(numYear : Number [, numMonth Number [, numDate Number]])

Arguments

numYear
Required. A numeric value equal to the year.
numMonth
Optional. A numeric value equal to the month. The value for January is 0, and other month values follow consecutively. Must be supplied if numDate is supplied.
numDate
Optional. A numeric value equal to the day of the month.

Remarks

All set methods taking optional arguments use the value returned from corresponding get methods, if you do not specify the optional argument. For example, if the numMonth argument is optional, but not specified, JScript uses the value returned from the getMonth method.

In addition, if the value of an argument is greater than its range or is a negative number, other stored values are modified accordingly.

To set the year using Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), use the setUTCFullYear method.

The range of years supported in the date object is approximately 285,616 years from either side of 1970.

Example

The following example illustrates the use of the setFullYear method:

var dtFirst = new Date();
dtFirst.setFullYear(2007);

var dtSecond = new Date();
// 10 is the value for November. 
dtSecond.setFullYear(2008, 10, 3);

Requirements

Version 3

Applies To:

Date Object

Change History

Date	History	Reason
July 2009	Modified example.	Content bug fix.
March 2009	Modified example and clarified argument definitions.	Information enhancement.

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