Convert a two digit year to a four digit year

Question

This is a question of best practices. I have a utility that takes in a two digit year as a string and I need to convert it to a four digit year as a string. right now I do <

Answer 1

The .NET framework has a method that does exactly what you want:

int fourDigitYear = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.Calendar.ToFourDigitYear(twoDigitYear)

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