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

http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/Date.html#getYear%28%29

The specification states that it returns the year minus 1900. Probably a good idea to avoid deprecated methods as well.