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DateTime Function

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DateTime (year as Numeric, month as Numeric, day as Numeric, hour as Numeric, minute as Numeric, second as Numeric) as DateTime

Category: Date
Description: Creates a timestamp from a year, month, day, hour, min and second
Supported Context: FormulaField And BusinessRules
Parameters:  
year as Numeric Numeric value representing a year, or reference to a field that will return a year value
month as Numeric Numeric value representing a month (1-12), or reference to a field that will return a month value
day as Numeric Numeric value representing a day (1-31), or reference to a field that will return a year value
hour as Numeric Numeric value representing an hour (0-23), or reference to a field that will return an hour value
minute as Numeric Numeric value representing a minute (00-59), or reference to a field that will return a minute value
second as Numeric Numeric value representing a second (00-59), or reference to a field that will return a second value
Returned value as DateTime Returns a date time value using the specified "year", "month", "day", "hour", "minute", and "second" parameters
Example #1

Create a date time field representing May 1st 2011 19:30

DateTime(2011,5,1,19,30,00)
Example #2

Define a workflow rule that automatically sets a task's due date to be the end of the following day of the start date Choose the "Reschedule" action and set the start date to be the following:

DateTime(Year($StartDate),Month($StartDate),Day($StartDate)+1,16,00,00)

So that if a task's start date is January 2nd 2011, then the due date of that task will be January 3rd at 16:00
Tips
  • To update the standard date/date time fields, use workflow rules
  • Review other date and duration useful functions, such as DateAdd(), ToDate(), etc
Related Functions

DateAdd()

ToDate()