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Return a `const` reference to the value of the option having the specified `name`. The behavior is undefined unless this command‐line object `isParsed()`, `hasOption(name)`, `OptionType::e_DATETIME == type(name)`, and `hasValue(name)`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<balcl_commandline.h>`

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xref:BloombergLP/bdlt/Datetime.adoc[bdlt::Datetime] const&
theDatetime(std::string_view const& name) const;
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