It's not so much a V8 bug, but an unfortunate feature of JavaScript itself. Crockford would call this one of the "bad parts". parseInt() tries to be clever and guess the radix if you don't give it one. Numbers starting with "0" are assumed to be octal (unless it starts with "0x" of course).
While it's annoying, it's a good idea to always specify the radix (the second argument to parseInt) when parsing numbers and you know the radix. This is why jslint yells at you if you leave this "optional" argument off. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/parseInt On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 3:34 PM, danp <dan.parn...@fastwebnet.it> wrote: > This is a V8 bug, but it's better to know it. > > Parsing "08" or "09" with parseInt returns 0, not 8 or 9. > > I've got out of mind to debug a peace of code that uses minutes from > the current time string, and goes wrong only at minute 8 and 9 of > every hour. > That's true since version 0.6.8 for sure. > > Dan > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
