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Date.getFullYear

date.getfullyear, getfullyear, date

Availability

Flash Player 5.

Usage

    myDate.getFullYear()

Parameters

None.

Returns

An integer.

Description

Method; returns the full year (a four-digit number, for example, 2000) of the specified Date object, according to local time. Local time is determined by the operating system on which the Flash Player is running.

Example

The following example uses the constructor to create a new Date object and send the value returned by the `getFullYear` method to the Output window:

    myDate = new Date();
    trace(myDate.getFullYear());