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# TryEncodeDateTime

Encode a Year, Month, Day, Hour, minute, seconds, milliseconds tuplet to a TDateTime value

## Declaration

Source position: dateutil.inc line 305

`function TryEncodeDateTime(`
`const AYear: Word;`
`const AMonth: Word;`
`const ADay: Word;`
`const AHour: Word;`
`const AMinute: Word;`
`const ASecond: Word;`
`const AMilliSecond: Word;`
`out AValue: TDateTime`
`):Boolean;`

## Arguments

`AYear` |  | Year
`AMonth` |  | Month in year
`ADay` |  | Day in month
`AHour` |  | Hour of the day
`AMinute` |  | Minutes in the hour
`ASecond` |  | Seconds in the minute
`AMilliSecond` |  | Millisecond in the second
`AValue` |  | Encoded TDateTime value.

## Function result

True if the encoding was succesful

## Description

EncodeDateTime encodes the values AYear AMonth, ADay,AHour, AMinute,ASecond and AMilliSecond to a date/time valueand returns this value in AValue.

If the date was encoded succesfully, True is returned, False is returned if one of the arguments is not valid.

## See also

EncodeDateTime |  | Encodes a DateTime value from all its parts
EncodeDateMonthWeek |  | Encodes a year, month, week of month and day of week to a DateTime value
EncodeDateWeek |  | Encode a TDateTime value from a year, week and day of week triplet
EncodeDateDay |  | Encodes a year and day of year to a DateTime value
TryEncodeDateDay |  | Encode a year and day of year to a TDateTime value
TryEncodeDateWeek |  | Encode a year, week and day of week triplet to a TDateTime value
TryEncodeDateMonthWeek |  | Encode a year, month, week of month and day of week to a TDateTime value

## Example

    Program Example79;

    { This program demonstrates the TryEncodeDateTime function }

    Uses SysUtils,DateUtils;

    Var
      Y,Mo,D,H,Mi,S,MS : Word;
      TS : TDateTime;

    Begin
      DecodeDateTime(Now,Y,Mo,D,H,Mi,S,MS);
      If TryEncodeDateTime(Y,Mo,D,H,Mi,S,MS,TS) then
        Writeln('Now is : ',DateTimeToStr(TS))
      else
        Writeln('Wrong date/time indication');
    End.

Documentation generated on: Feb 26 2014