Why does Java's Date.getYear() return 111 instead of 2011?

Question

I am having a bit of trouble parsing a string date to a Date object. I use a DateFormat to parse the string, and when I print the value of the date

Answer 1

President Evil nailed it, Date.getYear() returns a value that is the result of subtracting 1900 from the year that contains. And you you shouldn't use it.

But quick fix for the code in the question is:

Date dateFrom = null;

String gDFString = g.getDateFrom();

System.out.println(gDFString);

DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");

try {
    dateFrom = df.parse("04/12/2011");

    System.out.println(dateFrom);

    // Add 1900 to dateFrom.getYear() 

    System.out.println(dateFrom.getYear()+1900);
} catch (ParseException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}