How to get the current year in Java

In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to get the current year as an integer in Java.

Getting the current year

To get the current year, we can use the Year.now() method by calling a getValue() on it.

The getValue() method returns the current year in four-digit(2021) format according to the user local time.

Here is an example:

import java.time.Year;

public class Main
{
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int year = Year.now().getValue();
        System.out.println(year);
    }
}

Output:

2021

Note: This above method is available in Java 8 java.time.Year package.