Display four-digit year in Java

Use the ‘Y’ date conversion character to display four-digit year.

System.out.printf("Four-digit Year = %TY\n",d);

Above, d is a date object −

Date d = new Date();

The following is an example −

Example

 Live Demo

import java.util.Date; import java.text.DateFormat; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; public class Demo {    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {       Date d = new Date();       DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm:ss a");       String format = dateFormat.format(d);       System.out.println("Current date and time = " + format);       System.out.printf("Four-digit Year = %TY\n",d);    } }

Output

Current date and time = 26/11/2018 11:56:26 AM Four-digit Year = 2018