1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3 4<!-- 5 *********************************************************************** 6 * 7 * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 8 * 9 * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 10 * 11 * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 12 * 13 * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 14 * 15 * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 16 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 17 * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 18 * 19 * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 20 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 21 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 22 * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details 23 * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). 24 * 25 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 26 * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see 27 * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 28 * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 29 * 30 ************************************************************************ 31 --> 32 33<helpdocument version="1.0"> 34<meta> 35<topic id="textsbasicshared03030102xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 36<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">DateValue Function [Runtime]</title> 37<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03030102.xhp</filename> 38</topic> 39<history> 40<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 41<lastedited date="2006-06-27T11:15:11">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 42</history> 43</meta> 44<body> 45<section id="datevalue"> 46<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3156344"><bookmark_value>DateValue function</bookmark_value> 47</bookmark> 48<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156344" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03030102.xhp" name="DateValue Function [Runtime]">DateValue Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 49<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150542" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="2">Returns a date value from a date string. The date string is a complete date in a single numeric value. You can also use this serial number to determine the difference between two dates.</paragraph> 50</section> 51<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148799" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154910" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">DateValue [(date)]</paragraph> 53<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150870" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph> 54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153194" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="6">Date<comment>i66764</comment></paragraph> 55<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153969" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Parameters:</paragraph> 56<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153770" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> 57<emph>Date:</emph> String expression that contains the date that you want to calculate. The date can be specified in almost any format.</paragraph> 58<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153189" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="22">You can use this function to convert a date that occurs between December 1, 1582 and December 31, 9999 into a single integer value. You can then use this value to calculate the difference between two dates. If the date argument lies outside the acceptable range, $[officename] Basic returns an error message.</paragraph> 59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146974" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="23">In contrast to the DateSerial function that passes years, months, and days as separate numeric values, the DateValue function passes the date using the format "month.[,]day.[,]year".</paragraph> 60<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#languageformat"/> 61<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 62<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 63<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153142" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="24">Example:</paragraph> 64<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155412" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="25">Sub ExampleDateValue</paragraph> 65<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153363" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="26">msgbox DateValue("12/02/1997")</paragraph> 66<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149262" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="27">end sub</paragraph> 67</body> 68</helpdocument> 69