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

Compose

What does "not working" mean exactly? – Caraway

Answer 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);

Baseler

Answer 2

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

Annalist

You should probably explain a bit. – Gonfanon

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

Answer 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();

Antigua

Answer 4

Java 8:

java.time.Year.now();

here is the link.

Pitiful

Answer 5

What about

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

Nonaggression

Date#getYear() is deprecated. – Baseler

Also, that's year-1900. – Lippe

Answer 6

You can also do it like this:

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

Arzola

Answer 7

try

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

Agapanthus

Answer 8

Time Zone

Both the question and accepted answer ignore the question of time zone. At the time of a new year, the year number varies depending on your time zone.

Joda-Time

The bundled java.util.Date and .Calendar classes are notoriously troublesome. Avoid them. Use either Joda-Time or the new java.time package in Java 8.

Example in Joda-Time.

DateTimeZone timeZone = DateTimeZone.forID( "Europe/Paris" );
DateTime dateTime = DateTime.now( timeZone );
int year = dateTime.year().get();

Caraway

Answer 9

  //  enter code here
Date date = new Date();
DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy");
String year = format.format(date);

Conchitaconchobar

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. – Benefaction

Answer 10

In Java versions prior Java 8 you could also use java.sql.Date class. Convert to String and substring the year:

String currentYear = new java.sql.Date(System.currentTimeMillis()).toString().substring(0, 4);

Rightward