getYear deprecated method

[ravian]

I want to get the current year and tried the following.

System.out.println(date.getYear());

I came to know that getYear() is deprecated and further more it returns 108 which does not makes sense. Please tell me a better way of doing this.

[roots]

System.out.println(Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.YEAR));

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Please refer to the Date Java doc, how they have justified the depreciation.