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    StartOfAYear

    Return the first day of a given year.

    Declaration

    Source position: dateutil.inc line 159

    function StartOfAYear(const AYear: Word) : TDateTime;

    Arguments

    Name Description
    AYear Year to get first date from.

    Function result

    First day of AYear as a TDateTime.

    Description

    StartOfAYear returns a TDateTime value with the date of the first day of the year AYear (January 1).

    See also

    Name Description
    StartOfTheYear Return the first day of the year, given a date in this year.
    EndOfTheYear Calculate a TDateTime value representing the last day of a year, given a date in that year.
    EndOfAYear Calculate a TDateTime value representing the last day of a year.
    EndOfTheMonth Calculate a TDateTime value representing the last day of the month, given a day in that month.
    EndOfAMonth Calculate a TDateTime value representing the last day of the indicated month.
    StartOfAWeek Return a day of the week, given a year, week and day in the week.
    StartOfTheWeek Return the first day of the week, given a date.

    Example

    Program Example26;

{ This program demonstrates the StartOfAYear function }

Uses SysUtils,DateUtils;

Const
  Fmt = '"First day of this year : "dd mmmm yyyy';

Begin
  Writeln(FormatDateTime(Fmt,StartOfAYear(YearOf(Today))));
End.