In chapter 34 of Smarter Way to Learn JS book, in this exercise:
Create a Date object for the current date and time.
1-Extract the year.
2-Reset the Date object a century back.
3-Display the date Object in an alert.
The solution is
1- var now = new Date();
2- var nowYear = now.getFullYear();
3- now.setFullYear(nowYear - 100);
4- alert(now);
What I did not understand is line 3. Why don’t we write this code instead:
now = now.setFullYear(nowYear - 100);
These two types of codes yeilds different results.
If I understood well the line 3 of the first example should be inherently written that way, I have just have to learn that syntax no need to overthink.
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