Marusya's School Notes

ISO Dates: Year Only

ISO 8601 dates can be written without month and day (YYYY). An example of using only the year will still output a complete date:

var d = new Date("2015");

HTML file:	Displayed by browser:
<body> <h4>Example of only the year:</h4> <p id="demo"></p> <script> var d = new Date("2015"); document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = d; </script> </body>	Example of only the year:

HTML file:

Displayed by browser:

<body>
<h4>Example of only the year:</h4>
<p id="demo"></p>
<script>
var d = new Date("2015");
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = d;
</script>
</body>

Example of only the year:

This would show the first day of the year (January 1) but because of your timezone difference of 8 hours, this shows 8 hours earlier, hence December 31 of the previous year.