postinggetFullYear
postinggetFullYear is a utility concept used in some content management systems and posting interfaces to obtain the calendar year from a post’s date. The function is designed to take a date value or a post object and return the four-digit year associated with when the post was published or created. It is commonly employed in features such as yearly archives, year-based filtering, and yearly reporting.
- Input: a date value (such as a timestamp or ISO date string) or a post object with
- Output: a four-digit integer representing the year (e.g., 2024). In some implementations, the function may return
- Time zone considerations: implementations may extract the year using local time conventions or in a UTC
- Typical usage involves extracting the year from a post’s publication date to group posts by year
- Example behavior in plain terms: if a post has a date of 2024-05-17T12:34:56Z, postinggetFullYear would yield
- If the post date is missing or malformed, behavior depends on the environment and may return null
- Similar to standard date methods such as getFullYear or getUTCFullYear in various programming languages, with a
- Often used alongside fields like publishedAt, createdAt, or date to support chronological features.