Format Year in yyyy format in Java

To format year in yyyy format is like displaying the entire year. For example, 2018.

Use the yyyy format like this −

SimpleDateFormat("yyyy");

Let us see an example −

// year in yyyy format
SimpleDateFormat simpleformat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy");
String strYear = simpleformat.format(new Date());
System.out.println("Current Year = "+strYear);

Above, we have used the SimpleDateFormat class, therefore the following package is imported −

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

The following is an example −

Example

 Live Demo

import java.text.Format;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Calendar;
public class Demo {
   public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
      // displaying current date and time
      Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
      SimpleDateFormat simpleformat = new SimpleDateFormat("E, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss");
      System.out.println("Date and time = "+simpleformat.format(cal.getTime()));
      // displaying date
      simpleformat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MMMM/yyyy");
      String str = simpleformat.format(new Date());
      System.out.println("Current Date = "+str);
      // year in yyyy format
      simpleformat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy");
      String strYear = simpleformat.format(new Date());
      System.out.println("Current Year = "+strYear);
   }
}

Output

Date and time = Mon, 26 Nov 2018 11:12:39
Current Date = 26/November/2018
Current Year = 2018