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wewtyflakes on July 14, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScript'...

Seems like JS could have called it `getYearOffset1900`, or `getYearOffet`, etc, rather than `getYear`.

porridgeraisin on July 18, 2025 [–]

Agreed. What I've read is that they basically duplicated the Java API, which had getYear()

I suppose the offset method was really quite entrenched so no one thought to special case that function, instead special casing the "2025" returning getFullYear()

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