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## Date Truncation (Beginning of X)
Sometimes you need to truncate a time (say, the beginning of the current month).
Sometimes you need to truncate a time (say, the beginning of the current
month).
This is abstracted to `beginning_X` functions, which return a date/time format with the dates and times truncated to the specified level.
This is abstracted to `beginning_X` functions, which return a date/time format
with the dates and times truncated to the specified level.
+ `beginning_minute(Date)`
+ `beginning_hour(Date)`
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+ `beginning_month(Date)`
+ `beginning_year(Date)`
There are also 0-arity versions of the above, in which `Date` is assumed to be
"right now". For example, calling `qdate:beginning_month()` would return
midnight on the first day of the current month.
## Date Arithmetic
The current implementation of qdate's date arithmetic returns Unixtimes.