How to get only the year from the Date Class

Question

Is there a way to get only the year from the Date class and parse it into a string? Here is the code that I use:

Date d1 = new Date();
d1.getYear();  `

And how to set the date to DatTime.Now;

like in C#?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9474121/i-want-to-get-year-month-day-etc-from-java-date-to-compare-with-gregorian-calen — Raghunandan, Aug 31 '14 at 12:22
possible duplicate of [Get integer value of the current year in Java](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/136419/get-integer-value-of-the-current-year-in-java) — Basil Bourque, Sep 01 '14 at 00:51

Rakesh KR · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-31T12:34:53.797

2

Use SimpleDateFormat.

SimpleDateFormat sdf  = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy");
System.out.println(sdf.format(new Date()));

Output:

edited Aug 31 '14 at 12:34

answered Aug 31 '14 at 12:28

Rakesh KR

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and how to set the date variable to the current date? – Dexter90 Aug 31 '14 at 12:31

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 31 '14 at 12:34

public static String getCurrentDate(String format) {
    SimpleDateFormat sdfFrom = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
    Calendar currentTime = Calendar.getInstance();
    return (sdfFrom.format(currentTime.getTime()));
}

public static Date getCurrentDate() {
    Calendar currentTime = Calendar.getInstance();
    return currentTime.getTime();
}

try to use java 8 date

How to get only the year from the Date Class

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