Date Definitions are used to mark dates which are significant to your batch processing. These dates may be company observed holidays, fiscal periods, etc. You should be careful when defining these dates since they are used to schedule (or not schedule) Jobs, and they are used to create the defaults for dates used as parameters to Jobs. If your Data Center operates 365 days a year and schedules jobs based on calendar months, you do not need to define any special dates.

There are two types of significant dates. One type marks a single day as having some importance. The second type marks the beginning of a period. If the Date Type of the date you are defining is a continuous Date Type, then any dates which you define mark the beginning of a new period. If the Date Type is not continuous, then the date marks a single significant date.

'Declaration
 
<System.Runtime.Serialization.DataContractAttribute()>
Public NotInheritable Class DateDetail 

'Usage
 
Dim instance As DateDetail

[System.Runtime.Serialization.DataContract()]
public sealed class DateDetail