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Fwd: Correction necessary on IS web page
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kris Nyzio)
Fri Jan 14 11:33:18 2000
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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 11:33:08 -0500
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From: Kris Nyzio <knyzio@MIT.EDU>
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Hi MCC:
I believe this is one of your pages.
Kris
>Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 10:07:53 -0500 (EST)
>From: jmorzins@MIT.EDU
>To: is-home@mit.edu (IS Webmasters)
>Subject: Correction necessary on IS web page
>
>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.
>
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