LocalDate withYear() method in Java

An immutable copy of a LocalDate with the year altered as required is done using the method withYear() in the LocalDate class in Java. This method requires a single parameter i.e. the year that is to be set in the LocalDate and it returns the LocalDate with the year altered as required.

A program that demonstrates this is given as follows −

Example

 Live Demo

import java.time.*;
public class Main {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      LocalDate ld1 = LocalDate.parse("2019-02-15");
      System.out.println("The LocalDate is: " + ld1);
      LocalDate ld2 = ld1.withYear(2015);
      System.out.println("The LocalDate with year altered is: " + ld2);
   }
}

Output

The LocalDate is: 2019-02-15
The LocalDate with year altered is: 2015-02-15

Now let us understand the above program.

First the LocalDate is displayed. Then the LocalDate with the year altered to 2015 is displayed using the method withYear(). A code snippet that demonstrates this is as follows −

LocalDate ld1 = LocalDate.parse("2019-02-15");
System.out.println("The LocalDate is: " + ld1);
LocalDate ld2 = ld1.withYear(2015);
System.out.println("The LocalDate with year altered is: " + ld2);