How to insert 4 digit year that shows up in \today?

Question

Using the LaTeX command \today, I can insert the current date. Is there any way to insert the current year with a simple command? All I want is the simple 4 digit year that shows up in \today.

Answer 1

\the\year

Here\yearrepresents a number and\thelets you output it as a text.

Answer 2

For the sake of Geoff's question above, here is some short code to only get the year, without changing any of the build-in macros.

\documentclass{article}
\makeatletter
\def\Year#1{%
  \def\yy@##1##2##3##4;{##3##4}%
  \expandafter\yy@#1;
}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\Year{\the\year}
\end{document}

Answer 3

\documentclass{article}

\def\Year{\expandafter\YEAR\the\year}
\def\YEAR#1#2#3#4{#3#4}

\begin{document}
\Year 
\end{document}