Javascript: getFullyear() is not a function

Question

I am getting an error:

Statdate.getFullyear() is not a function. 

From this javascript code:

var start = new Date(); start = document.getElementById('Stardate').value ;  var y = start.getFullYear(); 

Any idea why that function isn't available?

Answer 1

Try this...

 var start = new Date(document.getElementById('Stardate').value);  var y = start.getFullYear();