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

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();//getting the instance of the Calendar using the factory method
we have a get() method to get the specified field of the calendar i.e year

int year=cal.get(Calendar.YEAR);//for example we get 2013 here 

cal.set(year, 0, 1); setting the date using the set method that all parameters like year ,month and day
Here we have given the month as 0 i.e Jan as the month start 0 - 11 and day as 1 as the days starts from 1 to30.

Date firstdate=cal.getTime();//here we will get the first day of the year

cal.set(year,11,31);//same way as the above we set the end date of the year

Date lastdate=cal.getTime();//here we will get the last day of the year

System.out.print("the firstdate and lastdate here\n");