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<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3143267" xml-lang="en-US">Returns a <emph>Date</emph> value for a specified year, month, or day.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="bascode" id="par_id3149670" xml-lang="en-US">DateSerial (year, month, day)</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150398" xml-lang="en-US">Date</paragraph>
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<emph>Year:</emph> Integer expression that indicates a year. 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>
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<emph>Month:</emph> Integer expression that indicates the month of the specified year. The accepted range is from 1-12.</paragraph>
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<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>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3161832" xml-lang="en-US">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>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155306" xml-lang="en-US">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>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152576" xml-lang="en-US">If a date is defined that lies outside of the accepted range, $[officename] Basic returns an error message.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149481" xml-lang="en-US">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>
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<paragraph role="bascode" id="par_id3148646" localize="false">Sub ExampleDateSerial</paragraph>
<paragraph role="bascode" id="par_id3156441" localize="false">Dim lDate As Long</paragraph>
<paragraph role="bascode" id="par_id3154791" localize="false">Dim sDate As String</paragraph>
<paragraph role="bascode" id="par_id3155415" localize="false"> lDate = DateSerial(1964, 4, 9)</paragraph>
<paragraph role="bascode" id="par_id3147125" localize="false"> sDate = DateSerial(1964, 4, 9)</paragraph>
<paragraph role="bascode" id="par_id3154942"> MsgBox lDate ' returns 23476</paragraph>
<paragraph role="bascode" id="par_id3151074"> MsgBox sDate ' returns 04/09/1964</paragraph>
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