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  • Subject: RE: Serial Date formula
  • From: "jt" <jt@xxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 09:56:20 -0400
  • Importance: Normal

Since Excel uses 1900-01-01 as day 1, the base date (or seed date) should be
1899-12-31.  But the base date actually calculates to 1899-12-30.

Well, I'll be darned !  The Excel serial date for 1901-01-01 is 367.  The
date for DATEVALUE(60) is 1900-02-29.

Excel calculates the year 1900 to be a leap year which, as Leif pointed out,
it isn't.

jt



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of DeLong, Eric
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 4:51 PM
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Serial Date formula


Chris,

It almost looks like a form of julian date based on 1900-01-01, but it
appears to be a couple of days off. In RPGIV, you could use SUBDUR and a
constant date value of 1899-12-30 to calculate this goofy julian. Of course
you want to specify the result in *D (days).

hth,
Eric DeLong



-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Beck [mailto:CBeck@good-sam.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 3:13 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Serial Date formula


Can someone tell the formula to convert 20010318  to 36968.

This would be just like the DATEVALUE in Excel.

Thanks
Chris



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