ContractPeriodStart
Contract Period Start · Contract Commitment dataset
- Feature level
- Mandatory
- Data type
- Date/Time
- Allows nulls
- No
- Column type
- Dimension
What it is
Contract Period Start represents the inclusive start bound of a contract period. For example, a time period where Contract Period Start is '2024-01-01T00:00:00Z' and Contract Period End is '2025-01-01T00:00:00Z' includes January 1 2024 since Contract Period Start represents the inclusive start bound, but does not include January 2 2025 since Contract Period End represents the exclusive end bound.
Requirements (4)
Verbatim from the specification. These are the statements the validator checks against.
- ContractPeriodStart MUST be of type Date/Time.
- ContractPeriodStart MUST conform to DateTimeFormat requirements.
- ContractPeriodStart MUST NOT be null.
- ContractPeriodStart MUST be the inclusive start bound of the effective period of the contract.
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