Detailed Description
Represents a date in a data set.
Introduction
The Date structure is used to represent dates in data sets. This is a memory efficient way to store a date, and means that the memory from a data file can be read directly into a structure.
Collaboration diagram for Date:
Structs | |
| struct | fiftyoneDegreesDate |
| Used to store the date when the dataset was produced and next date 51Degrees expect to provide a new data file. More... | |
Functions | |
| bool | fiftyoneDegreesDateIsValid (const fiftyoneDegreesDate *date) |
| Determines whether the date is a day of the Gregorian calendar, meaning a year above zero, a month from 1 to 12 and a day from 1 to the number of days in that month, with 29 in February of a leap year. | |
Function Documentation
◆ fiftyoneDegreesDateIsValid()
| bool fiftyoneDegreesDateIsValid | ( | const fiftyoneDegreesDate * | date | ) |
Determines whether the date is a day of the Gregorian calendar, meaning a year above zero, a month from 1 to 12 and a day from 1 to the number of days in that month, with 29 in February of a leap year.
A data file holds whatever bytes it was written with, so a date read from one is checked with this before it is used.
- Parameters
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date pointer to the date to check, or NULL
- Returns
- true if the date is valid, otherwise false, including for NULL