Returns the current date and time as a DateTime value, or creates a year 2000-compliant DateTime value.

DATETIME([nYear, nMonth, nDay [, nHours [, nMinutes [, nSeconds]]]])

Parameters

nYear

Specifies the year returned in the year 2000-compliant DateTime value. nYear can be a value from 100 to 9999.

nMonth

Specifies the month returned in the year 2000-compliant DateTime value. nMonth can be a value from 1 to 12.

nDay

Specifies the day returned in the year 2000-compliant DateTime value. nDay can be a value from 1 to 31.

nHours

Specifies the hours returned in the year 2000-compliant DateTime value. nHours can be a value from 0 (midnight) to 23 (11 P.M). Defaults to 0 if omitted.

nMinutes

Specifies the minutes returned in the year 2000-compliant DateTime value. nMinutes can be a value from 0 to 59. Defaults to 0 if omitted.

nSeconds

Specifies the seconds returned in the year 2000-compliant DateTime value. nSeconds can be a value from 0 to 59. Defaults to 0 if omitted.

Return Value

Remarks

Example

This first example stores the Datetime for the New Year to a variable named tNewyear, and stores the current Datetime to a variable named tToday. The number of seconds between the current Datetime and the New Year is then displayed.

The second example uses DATETIME( ) to create a year 2000-compliant DateTime value.

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tNewyear = DATETIME(YEAR(DATE( ) ) + 1, 1, 1) && Next New Year tToday = DATETIME( ) nSecondstonewyear = tNewyear - tToday CLEAR ? "There are " + ALLTRIM (STR(nSecondstonewyear)) ; + " seconds to the next New Year." CLEAR SET CENTURY ON SET DATE TO AMERICAN ? DATETIME(1998, 02, 16, 12, 34, 56) && Displays 02/16/1998 12:34:56 PM

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