Java Get First Date of Current Year

Tags: Java Date DateUtil

In this Java tutorial, we learn how to get the first day of current year as a Date object with the time set to the start of the day.

How to get first day of current year in Java

In this first step, create a new Java class named DateUtil, and implement a static method named getFirstDayOfCurrentYear() to return the first Date of current year as following Java code.

DateUtil.java

import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;

public class DateUtil {

    /**
     * Get first day of current year
     * @return return first day of current year as Date object
     */
    public static Date getFirstDayOfCurrentYear() {
        Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
        calendar.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, calendar.getActualMinimum(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR));
        calendar.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, calendar.getActualMinimum(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY));
        calendar.set(Calendar.MINUTE, calendar.getActualMinimum(Calendar.MINUTE));
        calendar.set(Calendar.SECOND, calendar.getActualMinimum(Calendar.SECOND));
        calendar.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, calendar.getActualMinimum(Calendar.MILLISECOND));

        return calendar.getTime();
    }
}

In the following example Java program, we learn how to use the above DateUtill class to get the first Date of current year.

GetFirstDayOfYearExample.java

import java.util.Date;

public class GetFirstDayOfYearExample {
    public static void main(String... args) {
        // Get First Date of Current Year
        Date firstDayOfYear = DateUtil.getFirstDayOfCurrentYear();

        System.out.println("Today: " + new Date());
        System.out.println("First day of current year: " + firstDayOfYear);
    }
}
The output as below.
Today: Tue Aug 16 21:01:18 ICT 2022
First day of current year: Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 ICT 2022

Happy Coding 😊

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