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# MakeDate

Evaluates specified year, month, day (and optional hour, minute, second) components and returns a datetime value in ISO format.

**Category:** `date`

**Syntax:**

```
MakeDate(year, month, day, |hour|, |minute|, |second|)
```

**Returns:** `DateTimeColumn`

**Context Filtering:** ✓ Yes

## Parameters

| Name     | Type     | Required | Description                                          |
| -------- | -------- | -------- | ---------------------------------------------------- |
| `year`   | `number` | ✓ Yes    | An integer representing the year.                    |
| `month`  | `number` | ✓ Yes    | An integer representing the month (1-12).            |
| `day`    | `number` | ✓ Yes    | An integer representing the day of the month (1-31). |
| `hour`   | `number` | ✗ No     | An integer representing the hour (0-23).             |
| `minute` | `number` | ✗ No     | An integer representing the minutes (0-59).          |
| `second` | `number` | ✗ No     | An integer representing the seconds (0-59).          |

## Validation

* Minimum parameters: 3
* Maximum parameters: 6

## Examples

```
MakeDate(2019, 1, 31, 16, 30, 0)
```

Returns the datetime value.
**Result:** `2019-01-31 16:30:00`