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/* $Rev$ $Date$ */

#ifndef _SDO_SDODATE_H_
#define _SDO_SDODATE_H_


#include "commonj/sdo/export.h"
#include "time.h"



 
namespace commonj{
namespace sdo{


    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    // A representation of the type of a date.
    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

/**
 * SDODate - a means of hiding the time_t.
 * The SDO API in several places uses method overloads to allow the
 * same method to set many types of data. As time_t and long are 
 * sometimes synonymous, it was not possible to have a time_t and a
 * long method, so SDODate simply wraps the time_t.
 * SDODate also allows modifcation of the implementation, as time_t is
 * only a short-term solution - better date/time handling is required.
 */

class SDODate
{

public:


    virtual SDO_API ~SDODate();

    SDO_API SDODate(time_t inval);

    /**
     * Hand out the date as a time_t
     */
    virtual SDO_API const time_t getTime() const;

    /**
     * Format the date as a string
     */

    virtual const char* ascTime(void) const;
  

private:
    time_t value;
};

};
};
#endif //_SDO_SDODATE_H_