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Satch3000
Satch3000

Reputation: 49364

Get the current year in JavaScript

How do I get the current year in JavaScript?

Upvotes: 1626

Views: 1357958

Answers (13)

Jason Harwig
Jason Harwig

Reputation: 45531

Create a new Date() object and call getFullYear():

new Date().getFullYear()  // returns the current year

Example usage: a page footer that always shows the current year:

document.getElementById("year").innerHTML = new Date().getFullYear();
footer {
  text-align: center;
  font-family: sans-serif;
}
<footer>
    © <span id="year"></span> by Stack Overflow
</footer>

See also, the Date() constructor's full list of methods.

Upvotes: 2708

tyler_flx
tyler_flx

Reputation: 101

In React, you can use inline js

<p class="font-inter text-sm text-gray-500 lg:mt-0">
    © Copyright {new Date().getFullYear()}. All rights reserved.
</p>

Upvotes: 3

user10060795
user10060795

Reputation:

Grabbing the class, we can replace it's textContent with year in javascript: 

document.querySelector(".yr").textContent = (new Date().getFullYear());
&copy; <span class="yr"></span> Company. All Rights Reserved.

Upvotes: 2

IAmNoob
IAmNoob

Reputation: 641

You can get the current year with one line of JS code.

<p>Copyright <script>document.write(new Date().getFullYear());</script></p>

Upvotes: 39

Arslan Ali
Arslan Ali

Reputation: 448

If you're using the ES6 Javascript with frameworks like Angular, React, VueJS. Then you should integrate a third-party utility library for your project convenience. DayJS is one of the most popular and lightweight library with Immutable data structures. In dayJS you can get year in one simple line of code like below.

dayjs().year()

There is also a bunch of useful methods as well. So I would suggest you to use the dayjs for your next project.

Upvotes: -1

YDF
YDF

Reputation: 405

Instantiate the class Date and call upon its getFullYear method to get the current year in yyyy format. Something like this:

let currentYear = new Date().getFullYear();

The currentYear variable will hold the value you are looking out for.

Upvotes: 3

Consta Gorgan
Consta Gorgan

Reputation: 589

TL;DR

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:

  • Web server's clock (but make sure that it's updated)
  • Time APIs & CDNs

Details

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).

Upvotes: 2

Majali
Majali

Reputation: 531

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>

Upvotes: 3

Nishal K.R
Nishal K.R

Reputation: 1130

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>

Upvotes: 6

Jerusalem Programmer
Jerusalem Programmer

Reputation: 629

Such is how I have it embedded and outputted to my HTML web page:

<div class="container">
    <p class="text-center">Copyright &copy; 
        <script>
            var CurrentYear = new Date().getFullYear()
            document.write(CurrentYear)
        </script>
    </p>
</div>

Output to HTML page is as follows:

Copyright © 2018

Upvotes: 16

Rupesh Agrawal
Rupesh Agrawal

Reputation: 695

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);

Upvotes: 5

Parth Jasani
Parth Jasani

Reputation: 2449

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)

Upvotes: 128

Sourav
Sourav

Reputation: 17530

// 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)

Upvotes: 314

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