Package google.type

  • The Date message represents a full or partial calendar date (year, month, day) relative to the Gregorian Calendar.

  • It can be used to represent a variety of dates like birthdays, anniversaries, and credit card expiration dates by allowing zero values for year, month, or day.

  • It's related to other time-representing message types like TimeOfDay, DateTime, and Timestamp from the Google Protocol Buffers library.

  • The Date message includes three integer fields: year, month, and day, with specific allowed values and constraints for representing different date scenarios.

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Date

Represents a whole or partial calendar date, such as a birthday. The time of day and time zone are either specified elsewhere or are insignificant. The date is relative to the Gregorian Calendar. This can represent one of the following:

  • A full date, with non-zero year, month, and day values.
  • A month and day, with a zero year (for example, an anniversary).
  • A year on its own, with a zero month and a zero day.
  • A year and month, with a zero day (for example, a credit card expiration date).

Related types:

Fields
year

int32

Year of the date. Must be from 1 to 9999, or 0 to specify a date without a year.
month

int32

Month of a year. Must be from 1 to 12, or 0 to specify a year without a month and day.
day

int32

Day of a month. Must be from 1 to 31 and valid for the year and month, or 0 to specify a year by itself or a year and month where the day isn't significant.