# Returning Current Year in gateway script

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/returning-current-year-in-gateway-script/26238>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [July 2, 2019, 6:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/returning-current-year-in-gateway-script/26238 "2019-07-02T18:43:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![wking](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/wking/32/21823_2.png) [@wking](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/wking)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2019, 6:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/returning-current-year-in-gateway-script/26238/1 "2019-07-02T18:43:42Z")

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Hello, I am trying to return the current year in a gateway script. The following returns a value of 1970. How can I return the current year in “yyyy” format? Thanks for any help!

```auto
from java.util import Calendar
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat as sdf
print sdf("yyyy").format(Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.YEAR));

```

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**Author:** ![witman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d2c977/32.png) [@witman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/witman)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2019, 6:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/returning-current-year-in-gateway-script/26238/2 "2019-07-02T18:52:33Z")

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```python
print system.date.getYear(system.date.now())

```