New Date Function

[derekbelyea]

Would like to see a conversion function that will deliver a Date value when the day, month and year values are in separate fields:

ToDate([Year],[Month],[Day])

It would be ideal if the input values could be either string or numeric.

[Claje]

I would also like to see some more robust date conversion options.

This is a great example, because writing this today probably ends up looking something like

DATETIMEPARSE(TOSTRING([YEAR])+"-"+TOSTRING([MONTH])+"-"+[Day],"%Y-%m-%d")

Which is a fairly messy level of transformation.

[SeanAdams]

The date-time treatment more broadly needs to be revisited.    Sometimes you use "months" sometimes you use %m and sometimes you use 'mm' to indicate months.

Have a look at this post:

https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Product-Ideas/Refactor-Date-time-treatment/idi-p/46420

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