How to get start and end date of a year?

Question

I have to use the Java Date class for this problem (it interfaces with something out of my control).

How do I get the start and end date of a year and then

Answer 1

    // suppose that I have the following variable as input
    int year=2011;
    Calendar calendarStart=Calendar.getInstance();
    calendarStart.set(Calendar.YEAR,year);
    calendarStart.set(Calendar.MONTH,0);
    calendarStart.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH,1);
    // returning the first date
    Date startDate=calendarStart.getTime();

    Calendar calendarEnd=Calendar.getInstance();
    calendarEnd.set(Calendar.YEAR,year);
    calendarEnd.set(Calendar.MONTH,11);
    calendarEnd.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH,31);

    // returning the last date
    Date endDate=calendarEnd.getTime();

To iterate, you should use the calendar object and increment the day_of_month variable

Hope that it can help