HebrewCalendar.MinSupportedDateTime Property
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Gets the earliest date and time supported by the HebrewCalendar type.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Property Value
Type: System.DateTimeThe earliest date and time supported by the HebrewCalendar type, which is equivalent to the first moment of January, 1, 1583 C.E. in the Gregorian calendar.
Microsoft Visual Basic represents time of day as the specified time on the minimum date supported by the DateTime type, which is January 1, 0001 C.E. However, the HebrewCalendar type does not support that minimum date. Consequently, if you call a method to format the time of day using the current calendar but you do not specify a format specifier, formatting uses the ISO 8601 sortable ("s") date/time pattern format specifier instead of the default general ("G") date/time pattern format specifier.
The following example gets the minimum value and the maximum value of the HebrewCalendar class.
using System; using System.Globalization; public class Example { public static void Demo(System.Windows.Controls.TextBlock outputBlock) { // Create an instance of the calendar. HebrewCalendar myCal = new HebrewCalendar(); outputBlock.Text += myCal.ToString() + "\n"; // Create an instance of the GregorianCalendar. GregorianCalendar myGre = new GregorianCalendar(); // Display the MinSupportedDateTime and its equivalent in the GregorianCalendar. DateTime myMin = myCal.MinSupportedDateTime; outputBlock.Text += String.Format("MinSupportedDateTime: {0:D2}/{1:D2}/{2:D4}", myCal.GetMonth(myMin), myCal.GetDayOfMonth(myMin), myCal.GetYear(myMin)); outputBlock.Text += String.Format(" (in Gregorian, {0:D2}/{1:D2}/{2:D4})", myGre.GetMonth(myMin), myGre.GetDayOfMonth(myMin), myGre.GetYear(myMin)) + "\n"; // Display the MaxSupportedDateTime and its equivalent in the GregorianCalendar. DateTime myMax = myCal.MaxSupportedDateTime; outputBlock.Text += String.Format("MaxSupportedDateTime: {0:D2}/{1:D2}/{2:D4}", myCal.GetMonth(myMax), myCal.GetDayOfMonth(myMax), myCal.GetYear(myMax)); outputBlock.Text += String.Format(" (in Gregorian, {0:D2}/{1:D2}/{2:D4})", myGre.GetMonth(myMax), myGre.GetDayOfMonth(myMax), myGre.GetYear(myMax)) + "\n"; } } /* This code produces the following output. System.Globalization.HebrewCalendar MinSupportedDateTime: 04/07/5343 (in Gregorian, 01/01/1583) MaxSupportedDateTime: 13/29/5999 (in Gregorian, 09/29/2239) */