Actionscript class to return the first and last days of the month from a given Date object

VXDateUtil.as

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package org.vxtra.date
{
	public class VXDateUtil
	{
		
		public static function firstAndLastDaysOfAGivenMonth( date:Date = null ):Array
		{
			var _return:Array;

			if( date == null ) date = new Date(); // If no date was passed, then use the current date
			
			_return = new Array();
			_return['firstDay'] = new Date( date.getFullYear(), date.getMonth() ); // Returns full Date objects
			_return['lastDay'] = new Date( date.getFullYear(), date.getMonth()+1, 0); // Returns full Date objects
			
			return _return;
			
		}
		
	}

}