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instance method

Date#year

() -> ::Integer
year → integer

Returns the year:

Example
Date.new(2001, 2, 3).year    # => 2001
(Date.new(1, 1, 1) - 1).year # => 0
See also #yday #xmlschema also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0