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Return a reference providing non‐modifiable access to a `bdlt::Date` with the value 1/1/1. Note that this value is the earliest date in the valid range of the adapted day‐count convention.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bbldc_basicdaterangedaycountadapter.h>`

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virtual
xref:BloombergLP/bdlt/Date.adoc[bdlt::Date] const&
firstDate() const override;
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