Month

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Month

Returns the month of a date serial, 1 to 12.

Syntax

Declare Function Month ( ByVal date_serial As Double ) As Long

Parameters

• date_serial

Description

The compiler will not recognize this function unless vbcompat.bi is included.

Return Value

Returns the month number from a variable containing a date in Date Serial format.

The month values are in the range 1-12 being 1 for January and 12 for December.

Remarks

Usage

#include "vbcompat.bi"

result = Month( date_serial )

Differences from QB

• Did not exist in QB. This function appeared in PDS and VBDOS

Examples

#include "vbcompat.bi"

Dim a As Double = DateSerial(2005,11,28) + TimeSerial(7,30,50)

Print Format(a, "yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss "); Month(a)

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Category: Date and Time Functions
Kind: function

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