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Set the "date" part of this object's value to the specified `year`, `month`, and `day`, and the "time" part to the optionally specified `hour`, `minute`, `second`, and `millisecond`, if they represent a valid `Datetime` value, with trailing fields that are not specified set to 0. Return 0 on success, and a non‐zero value (with no effect) otherwise.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlt_datetime.h>`

[source,cpp,subs="verbatim,replacements,macros,-callouts"]
----
int
validateAndSetDatetime(
    int year,
    int month,
    int day,
    int hour = 0,
    int minute = 0,
    int second = 0,
    int millisecond = 0);
----

== Description

DEPRECATED: Use `setDatetimeIfValid` instead.


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