Get integer value of the current year in Java

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

Not sure if this meets with the criteria of not setting up a new Calendar? (Why the opposition to doing so?)

This simplest (using Calendar, sorry) is:

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

There is also the new Date and Time API JSR, as well as Joda Time

The easiest way is to get the year from Calendar.

// year is stored as a static member
int year = Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.YEAR);

Use the following code for java 8 :

LocalDate localDate = LocalDate.now();
int year = localDate.getYear();
int month = localDate.getMonthValue();
int date = localDate.getDayOfMonth();

If your application is making heavy use of Date and Calendar objects, you really should use Joda Time, because java.util.Date is mutable. java.util.Calendar has performance problems when its fields get updated, and is clunky for datetime arithmetic.

In my case none of the above is worked. So After trying lot of solutions i found below one and it worked for me

import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.Date;

public class Practice
{   
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        Date d=new Date();  
        int year=d.getYear();
        int currentYear=year+1900;    

        System.out.println(currentYear);

    }

}

I may add that a simple way to get the current year as an integer is importing java.time.LocalDate and, then:

import java.time.LocalDate;
int yourVariable = LocalDate.now().getYear()

Hope this helps!

You can do the whole thing using Integer math without needing to instantiate a calendar:

return (System.currentTimeMillis()/1000/3600/24/365.25 +1970);

May be off for an hour or two at new year but I don't get the impression that is an issue?

In Java version 8+ can (advised to) use java.time library. ISO 8601 sets standard way to write dates: YYYY-MM-DD and java.time.Instant uses it, so (for UTC):

import java.time.Instant;
int myYear = Integer.parseInt(Instant.now().toString().substring(0,4));

P.S. just in case (and shorted for getting String, not int), using Calendar looks better and can be made zone-aware.

I use special functions in my library to work with days/month/year ints -

int[] int_dmy( long timestamp ) // remember month is [0..11] !!!
{
  Calendar cal = new GregorianCalendar(); cal.setTimeInMillis( timestamp );
  return new int[] { 
    cal.get( Calendar.DATE ), cal.get( Calendar.MONTH ), cal.get( Calendar.YEAR )
  };
};


int[] int_dmy( Date d ) { 
 ...
}