# CreateDateTime

Creates a date-time object.

Note that the core implementation of this BIF differs from ACF/Lucee in handling of a year value without a century. BoxLang respects that pre-first century years are valid and and will treat `createDate( 20 )` as 20 AD. The behavior modification to emulate ACF/Lucee would require the installation of the `bx-compat` module.

## Method Signature

```
CreateDateTime(year=[integer], month=[integer], day=[integer], hour=[integer], minute=[integer], second=[integer], millisecond=[integer], timezone=[string])
```

### Arguments

| Argument      | Type      | Required | Description                         | Default |
| ------------- | --------- | -------- | ----------------------------------- | ------- |
| `year`        | `integer` | `false`  | The year of the date-time object.   | `0`     |
| `month`       | `integer` | `false`  | The month of the date-time object.  | `1`     |
| `day`         | `integer` | `false`  | The day of the date-time object.    | `1`     |
| `hour`        | `integer` | `false`  | The hour of the date-time object.   | `0`     |
| `minute`      | `integer` | `false`  | The minute of the date-time object. | `0`     |
| `second`      | `integer` | `false`  | The second of the date-time object. | `0`     |
| `millisecond` | `integer` | `false`  |                                     | `0`     |
| `timezone`    | `string`  | `false`  |                                     |         |

## Examples

### Tag Syntax

```java
<bx:set yourDate = createDateTime( "2015", "12", "09", "6", "20", "34" ) >
<bx:dump var="#yourDate#"/>     
```

### Additional Examples

## Related

* [ClearTimezone](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/cleartimezone)
* [CreateDate](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/createdate)
* [CreateODBCDate](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/createodbcdate)
* [CreateODBCDateTime](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/createodbcdatetime)
* [CreateODBCTime](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/createodbctime)
* [CreateTime](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/createtime)
* [CreateTimeSpan](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/createtimespan)
* [DateAdd](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/dateadd)
* [DateCompare](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/datecompare)
* [DateConvert](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/dateconvert)
* [DateDiff](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/datediff)
* [DateFormat](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/dateformat)
* [DatePart](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/datepart)
* [DateTimeFormat](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/datetimeformat)
* [Day](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/day)
* [DayOfWeek](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/dayofweek)
* [DayOfWeekAsString](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/dayofweekasstring)
* [DayOfWeekShortAsString](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/dayofweekshortasstring)
* [DayOfYear](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/dayofyear)
* [DaysInMonth](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/daysinmonth)
* [DaysInYear](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/daysinyear)
* [FirstDayOfMonth](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/firstdayofmonth)
* [GetNumericDate](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/getnumericdate)
* [GetTime](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/gettime)
* [GetTimezone](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/gettimezone)
* [GetTimezoneInfo](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/gettimezoneinfo)
* [Hour](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/hour)
* [Millisecond](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/millisecond)
* [Minute](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/minute)
* [Month](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/month)
* [MonthAsString](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/monthasstring)
* [MonthShortAsString](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/monthshortasstring)
* [Nanosecond](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/nanosecond)
* [Now](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/now)
* [Offset](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/offset)
* [ParseDateTime](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/parsedatetime)
* [Quarter](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/quarter)
* [Second](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/second)
* [SetTimezone](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/settimezone)
* [TimeFormat](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/timeformat)
* [TimeUnits](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/timeunits)
* [Week](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/week)
* [Year](https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-language/reference/built-in-functions/temporal/year)


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