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Return a reference providing non‐modifiable access to the earliest date in the valid range of this calendar. The behavior is undefined unless this calendar is non‐empty ‐‐ i.e., unless `1 <= length()`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlt_packedcalendar.h>`

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