MONTH

• Source: https://www.freebasic.net/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=KeyPgMonth
• Last revised: 2016-03-13

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Gets the month of the year from a Date Serial

Syntax

` declare function Month ( byval date_serial as double ) as long

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Usage

#include "vbcompat.bi"
result = Month( date_serial )

Parameters

date_serial

the date

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.

Description

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

Examples

start GeSHi

#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)

end GeSHi

Differences from QB

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

See also

• Date Serials

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