| Function Name: | Date |
| Description: | This function is typically used as a parameter to another function. It allows you to pass a date to a function, specifying either a year, a year and month, or a year, month and day. |
| Minimum FH Version: | 3.1 |
| No. of Parameters: | 3 |
| Return Type: | Date |
| Parameter 1: | A number. The year (A.D. only). |
| Parameter 2: | A number. The month. This value is optional. If not supplied, the month value will be 0. 0 is a special value, meaning that the month is not know. Otherwise, the value must be in the range 1-12. |
| Parameter 3: | A number. The day. This value is optional. If not supplied, the day value will be 0. 0 is a special value, meaning that the day is not know. Otherwise, the value must be in the range 1-31. You must not supply a non-zero day if you have not supplied a non-zero month. |
| Examples: |
=Date(1901) or =Date([“Year”]) or Date(1939,9,3) The first example gives the year 1901. The second will result in a prompt being put up for the year. The 3rd returns the date, 3rd September, 1939. This function can be useful as a parameter to other functions. For example: =EstimatedAgeAt(%INDI%,Date(1901), MIN) will return a person’s minimum possible estimated age, in 1901. |
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