Date, DateTime, and Time functions

Applies to: Canvas apps Desktop flows Model-driven apps Power Platform CLI

Converts date and time components to a date/time value.

Description

The Date function converts individual Year, Month, and Day values to a Date/Time value. The time portion is midnight.

• If Year is between 0 and 1899 (inclusive), the function adds that value to 1900 to calculate the year. 70 becomes 1970.
• If Month is less than 1 or more than 12, the result subtracts or adds that many months from the beginning of the specified year.
• If Day is greater than the number of days in the specified month, the function adds that many days to the first day of the month and returns the corresponding date from a subsequent month. If Day is less than 1, the function subtracts that many days, plus 1, from the first day of the specified month.

The Time function converts individual Hour, Minute, Second, and optionally Millisecond values to a Date/Time value. The result has no date associated with it.

The DateTime function combines the Date and Time functions into a single function, taking both date and time arguments and returning a Date/Time value that has both date and time components.

See the DateValue, TimeValue, and DateTimeValue functions for information about how to convert a string to a value.

Also see working with dates and times for more information.

Syntax

Date( Year, Month, Day )

• Year - Required. Numbers greater than 1899 are interpreted as absolute (1980 is interpreted as 1980); numbers that range from 0 to 1899 are interpreted as relative to 1900. (For example, 80 is interpreted as 1980.)
• Month - Required. A number that ranges from 1 to 12.
• Day - Required. A number that ranges from 1 to 31.

Time( Hour, Minute, Second [, Milliseconds ] )

• Hour - Required. Number of hours, usually in the range 0 (12:00 AM) to 23 (11:00 PM).
• Minute - Required. Number of minutes, usually in the range 0 to 59.
• Second - Required. Number of seconds, usually in the range 0 to 59.
• Milliseconds - Optional. Number of milliseconds, usually in the range 0 to 999.

DateTime( Year, Month, Day, Hour, Minute, Second [, Milliseconds ] )

• Year - Required. Numbers greater than 1899 are interpreted as absolute (1980 is interpreted as 1980); numbers that range from 0 to 1899 are interpreted as relative to 1900. (For example, 80 is interpreted as 1980.)
• Month - Required. A number that ranges from 1 to 12.
• Day - Required. A number that ranges from 1 to 31.
• Hour - Required. Number of hours, usually in the range 0 (12:00 AM) to 23 (11:00 PM)
• Minute - Required. Number of minutes, usually in the range 0 to 59.
• Second - Required. Number of seconds, usually in the range 0 to 59.
• Milliseconds - Optional. Number of milliseconds, usually in the range 0 to 999.

Examples

Date

If a user typed

• 1979 in a text-input control named HireYear
• 3 in a text-input control named HireMonth
• 17 in a text-input control named HireDay

this formula would return 3/17/1979:

Date( Value(HireYear.Text), Value(HireMonth.Text), Value(HireDay.Text) )

Time

If a user typed

• 14 in a text-input control named BirthHour
• 50 in a text-input control named BirthMinute
• 24 in a text-input control named BirthSecond

this formula would return 02:50:24 P:

Text( 
    Time(Value(BirthHour.Text), Value(BirthMinute.Text), Value(BirthSecond.Text)), 
    "hh:mm:ss A/P" 
)

DateTime

If a user typed

• 2023 in a text-input control named EclipseYear
• 10 in a text-input control named EclipseMonth
• 28 in a text-input control named EclipseDate
• 13 in a text-input control named EclipseHour
• 14 in a text-input control named EclipseMinute
• 5 in a text-input control named EclipseSecond
• 231 in a text-input control named EclipseMillisecond

this formula would return 10/28/23 01:14:05.231 PM:

Text(
    DateTime(Value(EclipseYear.Text), Value(EclipseMonth.Text), Value(EclipseDate.Text), 
        Value(EclipseHour.Text), Value(EclipseMinute.Text), 
        Value(EclipseSecond.Text), Value(EclipseSecond.Millisecond)
    ), 
    "yy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss.000 AM/PM"
)