inline javascript to render text year

Question

I currently have a datestamp after a copyright statment I would like to have the year after the - to be dynamic is there a way to sub in some javascript to write the year in as it changes see below for what i am hoping for

1994-2015 1994-

Answer 1

use js date object:

var year = new Date().getYear();

As per the comment about this method being deprecated, you can also use:

var year = Date().getFullYear();