Date Creation

Introduction

Dates can be created with the dateTime and dateTimeUTC functions. The difference between them is that dateTime uses the calendar of the session used in the function call, and dateTimeUTC uses the UTC calendar. The system session runs as UTC by default, except for scheduled events, which can be configured in the Scheduled Event Time Zone section of Project Settings.

This function does not accept variable or attribute parameters, only fixed values. To create a date using parameters, use the parseDateTime function.

Values

These functions take between one and six input values in the following order:

1. years (type: integer, four digits and greater than 1799)
2. months (type: integer, between 1 and 12)
3. days (type: integer, between 1 and 31)
4. hours (type: integer, between 0 and 23)
5. minutes (type: integer, between 0 and 59)
6. seconds (type: integer, between 0 and 59)

Examples

The examples below illustrate which value the expression returns:

• If you specify one value as an input:

  dateTime(2007)
  

  The expression will return the following output:

  "Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 CET 2007"
  

• If you specify two values as an input:

  dateTime(2007, 1)
  

  The expression will return the following output:

  "Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 CET 2007"
  

• If you specify three values as an input:

  dateTime(2007, 1, 1)
  

  The expression will return the following output:

  "Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 CET 2007"
  

• If you specify four values as an input:

  dateTime(2007, 1, 1, 1)
  

  The expression will return the following output:

  "Mon Jan 01 01:00:00 CET 2007"
  

• If you specify five values as an input:

  dateTime(2007, 1, 1, 1, 1)
  

  The expression will return the following output:

  "Mon Jan 01 01:01:00 CET 2007"
  

• If you specify six values as an input:

  dateTime(2007, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1)
  

  The expression will return the following output:

  "Mon Jan 01 01:01:01 CET 2007"