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How to generate a Date from just Month and Year in Java?

I need to generate a new Date object for credit card expiration date, I only have a month and a year, how can I generate a Date based on those two? I need the easiest way possible. I was reading some other answers on here, but they all seem too sophisticated.

Solution

  • You could use java.util.Calendar:

    Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.clear();
calendar.set(Calendar.MONTH, month);
calendar.set(Calendar.YEAR, year);
Date date = calendar.getTime();