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Clarify datetime() behaviour when fields are missing #1441

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fix: Clarify `datetime` behaviour when fields are missing
colinbarry Oct 16, 2025
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Update pages/fundamentals/data-types.mdx
matea16 Oct 17, 2025
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Merge branch 'memgraph-3-6-1' into feat/datetime-with-no-numeric-args
matea16 Oct 17, 2025
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Expand Up @@ -622,7 +622,13 @@ CREATE (:Flight {AIR123: datetime("2021-04-21T14:15:00Z")});

Maps for constructing `ZonedDateTime` values may have the following fields:
`year`, `month`, `day`, `hour`, `minute`, `second`, `millisecond`,
`microsecond` and `timezone`.
`microsecond` and `timezone`.
- If some numeric fields are omitted, they default to the lowest value for that field:
- `0` for `year`, `hour`, `minute`, `second`, `millisecond`, and `microsecond`.
- `1` for `month` and `day`.
- If the `timezone` is omitted, it defaults to UTC.
- If all numeric fields are omitted and only the `timezone` is specified, then a `datetime`
represents the **current time** in the that timezone.

There are two options for the `timezone` field:
* string: timezone name from the
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