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<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">DATE</title>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153551" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid="HID_FUNC_DATUM">This function calculates a date specified by year, month, day and displays it in the cell's formatting.</ahelp> The default format of a cell containing the DATE function is the date format, but you can format the cells with any other number format.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150474" xml-lang="en-US">DATE(Year; Month; Day)</paragraph>
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<emph>Year</emph> is an integer between 1583 and 9957 or between 0 and 99.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153222" xml-lang="en-US">In <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC"><item type="menuitem">%PRODUCTNAME - Preferences</item></caseinline><defaultinline><item type="menuitem">Tools - Options</item></defaultinline></switchinline><item type="menuitem"> - $[officename] - General </item>you can set from which year a two-digit number entry is recognized as 20xx.</paragraph>
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<emph>Month</emph> is an integer indicating the month.</paragraph>
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<emph>Day</emph> is an integer indicating the day of the month.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156260" xml-lang="en-US">If the values for month and day are out of bounds, they are carried over to the next digit. If you enter <item type="input">=DATE(00;12;31)</item> the result will be 2000-12-31. If, on the other hand, you enter <item type="input">=DATE(00;13;31)</item> the result will be 2001-01-31.</paragraph>
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<item type="input">=DATE(00;1;31)</item> yields 1/31/00 if the cell format setting is MM/DD/YY.</paragraph>
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