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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> 38cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 39cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148799" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 40cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154910" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">DateValue [(date)]</paragraph> 41cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150870" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph> 42cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153194" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="6">Date<comment>i66764</comment></paragraph> 43cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153969" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Parameters:</paragraph> 44cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153770" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> 45cdf0e10cSrcweir<emph>Date:</emph> String expression that contains the date that you want to calculate. The date can be specified in almost any format.</paragraph> 46cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 47cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 48cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#languageformat"/> 49cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 50cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 51cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153142" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="24">Example:</paragraph> 52cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155412" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="25">Sub ExampleDateValue</paragraph> 53cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153363" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="26">msgbox DateValue("12/02/1997")</paragraph> 54cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149262" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="27">end sub</paragraph> 55cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 56cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 57