[925] in IS Home Pages
Correction necessary on IS web page
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jmorzins@MIT.EDU)
Fri Jan 14 10:07:56 2000
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 10:07:53 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200001141507.KAA00824@salticus-peckhamae.mit.edu>
From: jmorzins@MIT.EDU
To: is-home@MIT.EDU (IS Webmasters)
Please provide as much information as you can. Thank you.
** Incorrect information:
The page I was looking at contains a hardcoded "/19"
in a printed date. This causes dates on MSIE to
print as "192000" and dates on Netscape to print
as "19100".
Fun.
** Location (URL):
http://web.mit.edu/mcc/www/announcement.html
** Correction:
A better way to do dates would be to make lines 14-17 be
var year=mydate.getYear()
if (year<1000)
year=1900+year
var day=mydate.getDay()
and lines 41-46 be
year = test.getYear()
if (year<1000)
year=1900+year
document.write(" ",month,"/",day,"/",year," ")
I apologize if these line numbers are off by one or two;
I'm on a Mac right now, and don't have easy access to
the "diff" and "patch" programs.
Yes, the "windowing" around year 1000 is klugy, but
the screwed-up behavior of MSIE makes it hard to do
anything else. Netscape always returns year-1900
when you get the JavaScript date, but MSIE will
return 2-digit years during the 1900's, but 4-digit(!)
years for ANY other century.
** Is there an original source for this information (i.e. author, owner, etc.)?
http://www.millkern.com/jsdate.html contains half
of this suggested fix.
** Do you have a special interest in this information (i.e. owner, frequent reader, etc.)?
Nope.
