5.4.6. DateTime Class

A DateTime instance represents a timestamp between 1 January 0001 at 00:00.000000 and 31 December 9999 at 23:59:59.999999. It has methods to allow formatting a date or time in various formats, as well as allowing arithmetic operations between timestamps.

Note

DateTime does not support leap seconds like December 31, 2016 at 23:59:60 UTC.

Table 5.41. DateTime Class

Object

Methods inherited from the Object class

Class (Metaclass)

Methods inherited from the Class class

+ Orderable (Mixin Class)

Methods inherited from the Orderable class

Comparison Methods = == < <= << <<= <> > >= >< >> >>= \= \== \< \<< \> \>>

compareTo

+ Comparable (Mixin Class)

Methods inherited from the Comparable class

compareTo

DateTime

new (Inherited Class Method)	fromOrdinalDate (Class Method)
fromBaseDate (Class Method)	fromStandardDate (Class Method)
fromCivilTime (Class Method)	fromTicks (Class Method)
fromEuropeanDate (Class Method)	fromUsaDate (Class Method)
fromIsoDate (Class Method)	fromUtcIsoDate (Class Method)
fromLongTime (Class Method)	fromWeekNumberDate (Class Method)
fromNormalDate (Class Method)	maxDate (Class Method)
fromNormalTime (Class Method)	minDate (Class Method)
fromOrderedDate (Class Method)	today (Class Method)