Datetime type

**Overview**

Stores date and time as the number of seconds elapsed since January 01, 1970.

Occupies 8 bytes of memory.

Range: January 1, 1970, to December 31, 3000.

**Literals**

Represented as a literal string enclosed in single quotes, starting with 'D'.

Format: D'YYYY.MM.DD HH:MM:SS' or D'DD.MM.YYYY HH:MM:SS'.

Components: Year, Month, Day, Hours, Minutes, Seconds.

Partial specification is allowed (e.g., D'19.07.1980 12', D'01.01.2004').

Omitting date or time components results in default values (00:00:00 for time, or current compilation date for date if only time is specified).

Compiler returns a warning for incomplete date entries.

**Special Literals**

__DATE__: Compilation date.

__DATETIME__: Compilation date and time.

**String Conversion**

Without #property strict: Converts to the number of seconds (e.g., 1394034418).

With #property strict: Converts to the literal string format (e.g., 2014.03.05 15:46:58).

**Related Topics**

[Structure of the Date Type](/constants/structures/mqldatetime)

[Date and Time](/dateandtime)

[TimeToString](/convert/timetostring)

[StringToTime](/convert/stringtotime)