DATE

The DATE function takes Numbers describing a year, month, and day; it uses these to create a DATE, which it returns.

This function requires three Numbers as input. It outputs a Date with the given numbers used as the year, month, and day values.

Declaration

DATE(year, month, day) -> date

Parameters

year (required, type: Number)

A 4-digit integer; this represents a 4-digit year.

month (required, type: Number)

An integer between 1 and 12; this represents the month of a 12-month year.

day (required, type: Number)

An integer between 1 and 31, representing the day of 31- (or 30-, or 29- or 28-) day year.

Return Values

date (type: Date)

A Date with the year, month, and day values specified by the given Numbers.

Examples

The following example returns a Date indicating February first, 2000:

DATE(1, 2, 2000) -> {  
 "day": 1  
 "month": 2  
 "year": 2000  
}