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    StartOfTheYear

    Return the first day of the year, given a date in this year.

    Declaration

    Source position: dateutil.inc line 157

    function StartOfTheYear(const AValue: TDateTime) : TDateTime;

    Arguments

    Name Description
    AValue Date in year of which to return the start.

    Function result

    First day of the year as a TDateTime value.

    Description

    StartOfTheYear extracts the year part of AValue and returns a TDateTime value with the date of the first day of that year (January 1), as the StartOfAYear function.

    See also

    Name Description
    StartOfAYear Return the first day of a given 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.

    Example

    Program Example24;

{ This program demonstrates the StartOfTheYear function }

Uses SysUtils,DateUtils;

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

Begin
  Writeln(FormatDateTime(Fmt,StartOfTheYear(Today)));
End.