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DateTime.FromText

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Syntax

DateTime.FromText(text as nullable text, optional options as any) as nullable datetime

About

Creates a datetime value from a textual representation, text. An optional record parameter, options, may be provided to specify additional properties. The record can contain the following fields:

  • Format: A text value indicating the format to use. For more details, go to https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2180104 and https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2180105. Omitting this field or providing null will result in parsing the date using a best effort.

  • Culture: When Format is not null, Culture controls some format specifiers. For example, in "en-US" "MMM" is "Jan", "Feb", "Mar", ..., while in "ru-RU" "MMM" is "янв", "фев", "мар", .... When Format is null, Culture controls the default format to use. When Culture is null or omitted, Culture.Current is used.

To support legacy workflows, options may also be a text value. This has the same behavior as if options = [Format = null, Culture = options].

Example 1

Convert "2010-12-31T01:30:00" into a datetime value.

Usage

DateTime.FromText("2010-12-31T01:30:25")

Output

#datetime(2010, 12, 31, 1, 30, 25)

Example 2

Convert "2010-12-31T01:30:00.121212" into a datetime value.

Usage

DateTime.FromText("30 Dez 2010 02:04:50.369730", [Format="dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss.ffffff", Culture="de-DE"])

Output

#datetime(2010, 12, 30, 2, 4, 50.36973)

Example 3

Convert "2010-12-31T01:30:00" into a datetime value.

Usage

DateTime.FromText("2000-02-08T03:45:12Z", [Format="yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'", Culture="en-US"])

Output

#datetime(2000, 2, 8, 3, 45, 12)

Example 4

Convert "20101231T013000" into a datetime value.

Usage

DateTime.FromText("20101231T013000", [Format="yyyyMMdd'T'HHmmss", Culture="en-US"])

Output

#datetime(2010, 12, 31, 1, 30, 0)