1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3 4<!--*********************************************************** 5 * 6 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 7 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 8 * distributed with this work for additional information 9 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 10 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 11 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 12 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 13 * 14 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 15 * 16 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 17 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 18 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 19 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 20 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 21 * under the License. 22 * 23 ***********************************************************--> 24 25 26 27<helpdocument version="1.0"> 28<meta> 29<topic id="textsbasicshared03030102xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 30<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">DateValue Function [Runtime]</title> 31<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03030102.xhp</filename> 32</topic> 33<history> 34<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 35<lastedited date="2006-06-27T11:15:11">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 36</history> 37</meta> 38<body> 39<section id="datevalue"> 40<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3156344"><bookmark_value>DateValue function</bookmark_value> 41</bookmark> 42<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> 43<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> 44</section> 45<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148799" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 46<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154910" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">DateValue [(date)]</paragraph> 47<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150870" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph> 48<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153194" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="6">Date<comment>i66764</comment></paragraph> 49<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153969" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Parameters:</paragraph> 50<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153770" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> 51<emph>Date:</emph> String expression that contains the date that you want to calculate. The date can be specified in almost any format.</paragraph> 52<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> 53<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> 54<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#languageformat"/> 55<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 56<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 57<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153142" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="24">Example:</paragraph> 58<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155412" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="25">Sub ExampleDateValue</paragraph> 59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153363" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="26">msgbox DateValue("12/02/1997")</paragraph> 60<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149262" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="27">end sub</paragraph> 61</body> 62</helpdocument> 63