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.

[Vering]

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.

If you look in the doc for getYear() it returns a value that is the result of subtracting 1900 from the year that contains or begins with the instant in time represented by this Date object, as interpreted in the local time zone.

2008-1900 = 108

Don't ask me who ever got this idea...

[goldest]

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

Here are links to javadoc:-

Calendar and Date

Hope that helps,

Goldest

[mine0926]

This thread is almost 2yrs old.

[Vering]

This thread is almost 2yrs old.

I know. It might not help the originator much, but I found this thread myself today, and so may others in the future.