Date¶

The Date type represents a calendar date (year, month, day) in raypy.

Dates are stored internally as days since the Unix epoch (2001-01-01)
Does not contain time information

Type Information¶

Type	Rayforce Object Type Code	Stored as
`Date`	`-7`	Days since (2001-01-01)

Creating Date Values¶

>>> import datetime as dt
>>> from raypy import types as t

>>> t.Date(dt.date.today())
Date(2025-02-25)

>>> t.Date(dt.date(2025, 5, 10))
Date(2025-05-10)

>>> t.Date("2025-05-10")
Date(2025-05-10)

>>> t.Date(20218)  # Days since 2001-01-01
Date(2025-05-10)

Accessing Values¶

>>> d = t.Date("2025-01-15")
>>> d
Date(2025-01-15)

>>> d.value
datetime.date(2025, 1, 15)

Comparison¶

>>> date1 = Date("2025-01-01")
>>> date2 = Date("2025-01-01")
>>> date3 = Date("2025-12-31")

>>> date1 == date2
True

>>> date1 == date3
False