Power Automate Desktop treats Data-time as variables of a unique data type.
How to use
Variables of data types dealing with date and time are retrieved with the following actions
- Get current date and time
- Add to Datetime
- Subtract Dates
- Display select date dialog
- Convert text to datetime
Other date/time type information also exists in the file information properties.
"." to specify properties separated by "." to get the information attached to a Date/time.
The following example retrieves the year.
Properties
Property | Description |
---|---|
Year | Year (A.D.) |
Month | Month (1 to 12) |
Day | Days (1 to 31) |
DayOfWeek | Day of the week (Sunday, Monday…) |
DayOfYear | Number of days in the year (1 to 366) |
Hour | Hours (0 to 24) |
Minute | Minutes (0 to 59) |
Second | Seconds (0 to 59) |
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