/**
  * Builds a set of options for displaying a year chooser
  * @param string the current date (optional)
  * @return string a set of HTML options with adjacent years (current year selected)
  */
 public static function getYearOptions($date = "")
 {
     $years = TribeEventsViewHelpers::years();
     $options = '';
     if (empty($date)) {
         $year = date_i18n('Y');
         if (date_i18n('n') == 12 && date_i18n('j') == 31) {
             $year++;
         }
     } else {
         $year = date('Y', strtotime($date));
     }
     foreach ($years as $yearText) {
         if ($year == $yearText) {
             $selected = 'selected="selected"';
         } else {
             $selected = '';
         }
         $options .= "<option value='{$yearText}' {$selected}>{$yearText}</option>\n";
     }
     return $options;
 }