public sealed class Date : IMessage<Date>, IEquatable<Date>, IDeepCloneable<Date>, IBufferMessage, IMessage
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 value, with a zero year, such as an anniversary
A year on its own, with zero month and day values
A year and month value, with a zero day, such as a credit card expiration
date
Related types are [google.type.TimeOfDay][google.type.TimeOfDay] and
google.protobuf.Timestamp.
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.
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