java get year

To get the current year in Java, you can use the getInstance and get methods of the Calendar class.

Here is an example of how to get the current year:

Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
int year = calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR);

The getInstance method returns a Calendar object initialized with the current date and time. The get method returns a specific field of the Calendar object, in this case the year. The Calendar.YEAR constant specifies that we want to get the year field.

The get method returns the year as an int value.

Note that the Calendar class represents dates and times in the default time zone of the JVM. If you need to get the year in a different time zone, you can use the getInstance method that takes a TimeZone object as an argument.

For example:

Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
int year = calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR);

This will get the current year in the GMT time zone.