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title, description, ha_category, ha_release, ha_domain, ha_quality_scale, ha_codeowners, ha_integration_type

title	description	ha_category	ha_release	ha_domain	ha_quality_scale	ha_codeowners	ha_integration_type
Date/Time	Instructions on how to set up date/time entities within Home Assistant.	Date/Time	2023.6	datetime	internal	@home-assistant/core	entity

The Date/Time {% term integration %} is built for the controlling and monitoring of timestamps on devices.

{% include integrations/building_block_integration.md %}

If you are looking for a way to create a Date/Time entity, please take a look at the Date/Time helper.

The state of a date/time entity

The state of a date/time entity is the actual date and time value.

Screenshot showing the state of a date/time entity in the developer tools. In the example shown, the state is January 1, 2020 at 12:00 in the format YYYY-MM-DD T HH:MM:SS.

Actions

datetime actions

Available {% term actions %}: datetime.set_value

Action datetime.set_value

Set a new value for the datetime {% term entity %}.

Data attribute	Optional	Description
entity_id	no	String or list of strings that point at entity_id's of datetimes to control.
datetime	no	New datetime value to set. If timezone is not included, the Home Assistant instance's timezone will be used.