get present year value to string

Question

I need to get the present year value in string so I did:

Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();
DateFormat date = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy");
String year = date.format(now);

It works on ubuntu but it's not working on windows 7.

Do you know why? Is there a safer way to do that?

Thanks

Solution 1

You can simple get the year from Calendar instance using Calendar#get(int field) method:

Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();
int year = now.get(Calendar.YEAR);
String yearInString = String.valueOf(year);

Solution 2

String thisYear = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy").format(new Date());

Solution 3

In Java 8 there's a collection called java.time in which you easily can obtain the current year from your computer's clock.

To get the current year as an integer you can simply write:

int thisYear = Year.now().getValue();

To get it as a String:

String thisYear = Year.now().toString();

Solution 4

What about

Date currentDate = new Date();
String currentYear = String.valueOf(currentDate.getYear());

Solution 5

You can also do it like this:

String year = String.valueOf(Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.YEAR));

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Comments

[Rohit Jain]

Date#getYear() is deprecated.

[Russia Must Remove Putin]

You should probably explain a bit.

[lapo]

Also, that's year-1900.

[pczeus]

This is a low quality answer. You don't describe how this helps solve the issue, the answer is just code that is almost identical to what the original OP has and doesn't explain how this solves the issue.

[user2100789]

I use this. SimpleDateFormat uses Calendar. Format examples: SimpleDateFormat