RE: Serial Date formula

["Bruce Collins" <bacollins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris, Excel uses a starting date of 01/01/1900 (Windows) 01/01/1904
(Macintosh). if the day was 03 January 1900 (on a windoz system) then
the value would be three(3). Use the Date routines and have your
starting date as 01/01/1900.

HTH

Bruce

-----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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