How do I get the current year in JavaScript?
Create a new Date()
object and call getFullYear()
:
new Date().getFullYear()
// returns the current year
Hijacking the accepted answer to provide some basic example context like a footer that always shows the current year:
<footer>
© <span id="year"></span>
</footer>
Somewhere else executed after the HTML above has been loaded:
<script>
document.getElementById("year").innerHTML = new Date().getFullYear();
</script>
document.getElementById("year").innerHTML = new Date().getFullYear();
footer {
text-align: center;
font-family: sans-serif;
}
<footer>
© <span id="year">2018</span> by FooBar
</footer>
// Return today's date and time
var currentTime = new Date()
// returns the month (from 0 to 11)
var month = currentTime.getMonth() + 1
// returns the day of the month (from 1 to 31)
var day = currentTime.getDate()
// returns the year (four digits)
var year = currentTime.getFullYear()
// write output MM/dd/yyyy
document.write(month + "/" + day + "/" + year)
Here is another method to get date
new Date().getDate() // Get the day as a number (1-31)
new Date().getDay() // Get the weekday as a number (0-6)
new Date().getFullYear() // Get the four digit year (yyyy)
new Date().getHours() // Get the hour (0-23)
new Date().getMilliseconds() // Get the milliseconds (0-999)
new Date().getMinutes() // Get the minutes (0-59)
new Date().getMonth() // Get the month (0-11)
new Date().getSeconds() // Get the seconds (0-59)
new Date().getTime() // Get the time (milliseconds since January 1, 1970)
Such is how I have it embedded and outputted to my HTML web page:
<div class="container">
<p class="text-center">Copyright ©
<script>
var CurrentYear = new Date().getFullYear()
document.write(CurrentYear)
</script>
</p>
</div>
Output to HTML page is as follows:
Copyright © 2018
for current year we can use getFullYear() from Date class however there are many function which you can use as per the requirements, some functions are as,
var now = new Date()
console.log("Current Time is: " + now);
// getFullYear function will give current year
var currentYear = now.getFullYear()
console.log("Current year is: " + currentYear);
// getYear will give you the years after 1990 i.e currentYear-1990
var year = now.getYear()
console.log("Current year is: " + year);
// getMonth gives the month value but months starts from 0
// add 1 to get actual month value
var month = now.getMonth() + 1
console.log("Current month is: " + month);
// getDate gives the date value
var day = now.getDate()
console.log("Today's day is: " + day);
Take this example, you can place it wherever you want to show it without referring to script in the footer or somewhere else like other answers
<script>new Date().getFullYear()>document.write(new Date().getFullYear());</script>
Copyright note on the footer as an example
Copyright 2010 - <script>new Date().getFullYear()>document.write(new Date().getFullYear());</script>
Most of the answers found here are correct only if you need the current year based on your local machine's time zone and offset (client side) - source which, in most scenarios, cannot be considered reliable (beause it can differ from machine to machine).
Reliable sources are:
A method called on the Date
instance will return a value based on the local time of your machine.
Further details can be found in "MDN web docs": JavaScript Date object.
For your convenience, I've added a relevant note from their docs:
(...) the basic methods to fetch the date and time or its components all work in the local (i.e. host system) time zone and offset.
Another source mentioning this is: JavaScript date and time object
it is important to note that if someone's clock is off by a few hours or they are in a different time zone, then the Date object will create a different times from the one created on your own computer.
Some reliable sources that you can use are:
But if you simply don't care about the time accuracy or if your use case requires a time value relative to local machine's time then you can safely use Javascript's Date
basic methods like Date.now()
, or new Date().getFullYear()
(for current year).
You can simply use javascript like this. Otherwise you can use momentJs Plugin which helps in large application.
new Date().getDate() // Get the day as a number (1-31)
new Date().getDay() // Get the weekday as a number (0-6)
new Date().getFullYear() // Get the four digit year (yyyy)
new Date().getHours() // Get the hour (0-23)
new Date().getMilliseconds() // Get the milliseconds (0-999)
new Date().getMinutes() // Get the minutes (0-59)
new Date().getMonth() // Get the month (0-11)
new Date().getSeconds() // Get the seconds (0-59)
new Date().getTime() // Get the time (milliseconds since January 1, 1970)
function generate(type,element)
{
var value = "";
var date = new Date();
switch (type) {
case "Date":
value = date.getDate(); // Get the day as a number (1-31)
break;
case "Day":
value = date.getDay(); // Get the weekday as a number (0-6)
break;
case "FullYear":
value = date.getFullYear(); // Get the four digit year (yyyy)
break;
case "Hours":
value = date.getHours(); // Get the hour (0-23)
break;
case "Milliseconds":
value = date.getMilliseconds(); // Get the milliseconds (0-999)
break;
case "Minutes":
value = date.getMinutes(); // Get the minutes (0-59)
break;
case "Month":
value = date.getMonth(); // Get the month (0-11)
break;
case "Seconds":
value = date.getSeconds(); // Get the seconds (0-59)
break;
case "Time":
value = date.getTime(); // Get the time (milliseconds since January 1, 1970)
break;
}
$(element).siblings('span').text(value);
}
li{
list-style-type: none;
padding: 5px;
}
button{
width: 150px;
}
span{
margin-left: 100px;
}
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<ul>
<li>
<button type="button" onclick="generate('Date',this)">Get Date</button>
<span></span>
</li>
<li>
<button type="button" onclick="generate('Day',this)">Get Day</button>
<span></span>
</li>
<li>
<button type="button" onclick="generate('FullYear',this)">Get Full Year</button>
<span></span>
</li>
<li>
<button type="button" onclick="generate('Hours',this)">Get Hours</button>
<span></span>
</li>
<li>
<button type="button" onclick="generate('Milliseconds',this)">Get Milliseconds</button>
<span></span>
</li>
<li>
<button type="button" onclick="generate('Minutes',this)">Get Minutes</button>
<span></span>
</li>
<li>
<button type="button" onclick="generate('Month',this)">Get Month</button>
<span></span>
</li>
<li>
<button type="button" onclick="generate('Seconds',this)">Get Seconds</button>
<span></span>
</li>
<li>
<button type="button" onclick="generate('Time',this)">Get Time</button>
<span></span>
</li>
</ul>
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