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JavaScript

Posted by nikoxyz
nikoxyz
10,419 Points

Get year function in JavaScript Basics- store returned value in a variable

I don't know what I'm doing wrong with this, and the text editor button is turned off so I can't run this to check my work.

function getYear () {
  var year = new Date().getFullYear();
  return year;
}
getYear() {
  var yearToday = return year;
}

Also, what am I doing wrong with the code markdown?

2 Answers

nikoxyz
nikoxyz
10,419 Points
nikoxyz
nikoxyz
10,419 Points

Never mind. I figured it out based on an answer from the quiz before it. It looks like my markdown worked.

Tim Knight
Tim Knight
28,888 Points
Tim Knight
Tim Knight
28,888 Points

I'm glad you were able to figure it out nikoxyz.

For those people who come across this answer I wanted to at least outline a solution and this might help too in your learning process.

Since you've created the getYear() function all you have to do to call the function would be to run:

getYear();

So if you wanted to set that value to the variable you were trying it would look something like:

var yearToday = getYear();

So all together your code would be:

function getYear () {
  var year = new Date().getFullYear();
  return year;
}

var yearToday = getYear();