Javascript: Function to get current fiscal year

This can be useful when you need to print current session year or, current fiscal/financial year somewhere in your page and specifically when you do not want to invoke a server method for it.

Defining Function

<script language="javascript">
 function getCurrentFiscalYear() {
//get current date
 var today = new Date();
//get current month
 var curMonth = today.getMonth(); //get current month
 var fiscalYr = "";
 if (curMonth > 3) { //
 var nextYr1 = (today.getFullYear() + 1).toString();
 fiscalYr = today.getFullYear().toString() + "-" + nextYr1.charAt(2) + nextYr1.charAt(3);
 }
 else {
 var nextYr2 = today.getFullYear().toString();
 fiscalYr = (today.getFullYear() - 1).toString() + "-" + nextYr2.charAt(2) + nextYr2.charAt(3);
 }
 document.write(fiscalYr);
 }
 </script>

Calling Function

<script language="javascript">getCurSession()</script>

Note:

• I have made the function as per Indian fiscal year. You can change it according to your country. You only need to modify the conditional statement i.e, if (curMonth > 3) where April(3) is the starting month of fiscal year.
• getMonth() returns number of the month in a date value starting from 0 to 11
• You can change this function to return the session year which can be input for another logic/function. Accordingly you have to change the function.