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All values between 0 and 99 are interpreted as the years 1900-1999. For years that fall outside this range, you must enter all four digits.</paragraph> 45*a2be20c6Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156280" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><emph>Month:</emph> Integer expression that indicates the month of the specified year. The accepted range is from 1-12.</paragraph> 46*a2be20c6Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151043" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG"><emph>Day:</emph> Integer expression that indicates the day of the specified month. The accepted range is from 1-31. No error is returned when you enter a non-existing day for a month shorter than 31 days. <comment>see i69463</comment></paragraph> 47*a2be20c6Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3161832" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">The <emph>DateSerial function</emph> returns the number of days between December 30,1899 and the given date. You can use this function to calculate the difference between two dates.</paragraph> 48*a2be20c6Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155306" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">The <emph>DateSerial function</emph> returns the data type Variant with VarType 7 (Date). Internally, this value is stored as a Double value, so that when the given date is 1.1.1900, the returned value is 2. Negative values correspond to dates before December 30, 1899 (not inclusive).</paragraph> 49*a2be20c6Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152576" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">If a date is defined that lies outside of the accepted range, $[officename] Basic returns an error message.</paragraph> 50*a2be20c6Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149481" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Whereas you define the <emph>DateValue function</emph> as a string that contains the date, the <emph>DateSerial function</emph> evaluates each of the parameters (year, month, day) as separate numeric expressions.</paragraph> 51cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 52cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 53*a2be20c6Smseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3155411" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Example:</paragraph> 54*a2be20c6Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148646" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Sub ExampleDateSerial</paragraph> 55*a2be20c6Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156441" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Dim lDate as Long</paragraph> 56*a2be20c6Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154791" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Dim sDate as String</paragraph> 57*a2be20c6Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155415" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">lDate = DateSerial(1964, 4, 9)</paragraph> 58*a2be20c6Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147125" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">sDate = DateSerial(1964, 4, 9)</paragraph> 59*a2be20c6Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154942" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">msgbox lDate REM returns 23476</paragraph> 60*a2be20c6Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151074" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG">msgbox sDate REM returns 04/09/1964</paragraph> 61*a2be20c6Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153878" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">end sub</paragraph> 62cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 63cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 64