public Calendar Calendar { get; }

Public ReadOnly Property Calendar As Calendar
	Get

public:
property Calendar^ Calendar {
	Calendar^ get ();
}

member Calendar : Calendar with get

Property Value

A calendar divides time into measures, such as weeks, months, and years. The number, length, and start of the divisions vary in each calendar.

Any moment in time can be represented as a set of numeric values using a particular calendar. For example, the last vernal equinox occurred at (0.0, 0, 46, 8, 20, 3, 1999) in the Gregorian calendar. An implementation of Calendar can map any DateTime value to a similar set of numeric values, and DateTime can map such sets of numeric values to a textual representation using information from Calendar and DateTimeFormatInfo. The textual representation can be culture-sensitive (for example, "8:46 AM March 20th 1999 AD" for the en-US culture) or culture-insensitive (for example, "1999-03-20T08:46:00" in ISO 8601 format).

A Calendar implementation can define one or more eras. The Calendar class identifies the eras as enumerated integers where the current era (CurrentEra) has the value 0.

In order to make up for the difference between the calendar year and the actual time that the earth rotates around the sun or the actual time that the moon rotates around the earth, a leap year has a different number of days than a standard calendar year. Each Calendar implementation defines leap years differently.

For consistency, the first unit in each interval (for example, the first month) is assigned the value 1.

The System.Globalization namespace includes the following Calendar implementations: GregorianCalendar, HebrewCalendar, HijriCalendar, JapaneseCalendar, JulianCalendar, KoreanCalendar, TaiwanCalendar, and ThaiBuddhistCalendar.

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