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<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created>
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<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3156344"><bookmark_value>DateValue function</bookmark_value>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150542" xml-lang="en-US">Returns a <emph>Date</emph> object from a string representing a date.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id671643046319326">The returned object is represented internally as a single numeric value corresponding to the specified date. This value can be used to calculate the number of days between two dates.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153770"><emph>date</emph>: A string that contains the date that will be converted to a <emph>Date</emph> object.</paragraph>
<note id="par_id841643046880968">The string passed to <literal>DateValue</literal> must be expressed in one of the date formats defined by your locale setting (see <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC"><menuitem>%PRODUCTNAME - Preferences</menuitem></caseinline><defaultinline><menuitem>Tools - Options</menuitem></defaultinline></switchinline><menuitem> - Language Settings - Languages</menuitem>) or using the ISO date format "yyyy-mm-dd" (year, month and day separated by hyphens).</note>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" localize="false" id="par_id3153194">Date.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="bascode" localize="false" id="par_id3155412">Sub ExampleDateValue</paragraph>
<paragraph role="bascode" localize="false" id="bas_id671643047301348"> Dim aDate As Date</paragraph>
<paragraph role="bascode" localize="false" id="bas_id291643047301592"> aDate = DateValue("2021-12-20")</paragraph>
<paragraph role="bascode" id="bas_id461643047301827"> ' Prints the localized date</paragraph>
<paragraph role="bascode" localize="false" id="bas_id551643047302107"> MsgBox aDate</paragraph>
<paragraph role="bascode" id="bas_id616430473023063"> ' Extracts the year, month and day from the date object</paragraph>
<paragraph role="bascode" localize="false" id="bas_id281643047302645"> MsgBox Year(aDate)</paragraph>
<paragraph role="bascode" localize="false" id="bas_id391643047302940"> MsgBox Month(aDate)</paragraph>
<paragraph role="bascode" localize="false" id="bas_id201643047303163"> MsgBox Day(aDate)</paragraph>
<paragraph role="bascode" id="bas_id601643047303420"> ' Prints the numeric value corresponding to the date (as Long type)</paragraph>
<paragraph role="bascode" localize="false" id="bas_id381643047303644"> MsgBox CLng(aDate)</paragraph>
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