DATE

DATE create a date serial value

Synopsis

DATE(year,month,day)

Arguments

year: year of date

month: month of year

day: day of month

Description

The DATE function creates date serial values. 1-Jan-1900 is serial value 1, 2-Jan-1900 is serial value 2, and so on. For compatibility reasons, a serial value is reserved for the non-existing date 29-Feb-1900.

Note

If month or day is less than 1 or too big, then the year and/or month will be adjusted. For spreadsheets created with the Mac version of Excel, serial 1 is 1-Jan-1904.

Microsoft Excel Compatibility

This function is Excel compatible.

See also

TODAY, YEAR, MONTH, DAY.