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GregorianCalendar::MinSupportedDateTime Property

 

Gets the earliest date and time supported by the GregorianCalendar type.

Namespace:   System.Globalization
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

public:
[ComVisibleAttribute(false)]
property DateTime MinSupportedDateTime {
	virtual DateTime get() override;
}

Property Value

Type: System::DateTime

The earliest date and time supported by the GregorianCalendar type, which is the first moment of January 1, 0001 C.E. and is equivalent to MinValue.

Although the value of the MinSupportedDateTime property is the first moment of January 1, 0001 C.E., the Gregorian calendar was not introduced until October 15, 1582, and its adoption throughout the European continent and worldwide was slow. Until they adopted the Gregorian calendar, most cultures in the European, American, and Australian continents used the Julian calendar, which is represented by the JulianCalendar class.

The following code example gets the minimum value and the maximum value of the calendar.

using namespace System;
using namespace System::Globalization;

int main()
{
   // Create an instance of the calendar.
   GregorianCalendar^ myCal = gcnew GregorianCalendar;
   Console::WriteLine( myCal );

   // Display the MinSupportedDateTime.
   DateTime myMin = myCal->MinSupportedDateTime;
   Console::WriteLine( "MinSupportedDateTime: {0:D2}/{1:D2}/{2:D4}", myCal->GetMonth( myMin ), myCal->GetDayOfMonth( myMin ), myCal->GetYear( myMin ) );

   // Display the MaxSupportedDateTime.
   DateTime myMax = myCal->MaxSupportedDateTime;
   Console::WriteLine( "MaxSupportedDateTime: {0:D2}/{1:D2}/{2:D4}", myCal->GetMonth( myMax ), myCal->GetDayOfMonth( myMax ), myCal->GetYear( myMax ) );
}

/*
This code produces the following output.

System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar
MinSupportedDateTime: 01/01/0001
MaxSupportedDateTime: 12/31/9999

*/

Universal Windows Platform
Available since 10
.NET Framework
Available since 2.0
Silverlight
Available since 2.0
Windows Phone Silverlight
Available since 7.0
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