

    \filetitle{startdate}{Date of the first available observation in a tseries object}{tseries/startdate}

	\paragraph{Syntax}
 
 \begin{verbatim}
 d = startdate(x)
 \end{verbatim}
 \paragraph{Input arguments}
 
 \begin{itemize}
 \item
   \texttt{x} {[} tseries {]} - Tseries object.
 \end{itemize}
 \paragraph{Output arguments}
 
 \begin{itemize}
 \item
   \texttt{d} {[} numeric {]} - IRIS serial date number representing the
   date of the first observation available in the input tseries.
 \end{itemize}
 \paragraph{Description}
 
 The \texttt{startdate} function is equivalent to calling
 
 \begin{verbatim}
 get(x,'startDate')
 \end{verbatim}
 \paragraph{Example}
 
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