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<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">DATE</title>
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<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3155511"><bookmark_value>DATE function</bookmark_value>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3155511" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3"><variable id="date"><link href="text/scalc/01/func_date.xhp">DATE</link>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153551" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4"><ahelp hid="HID_FUNC_DATUM">This function converts a date written as year, month, day to an internal serial number and displays it in the cell's formatting.</ahelp> The default format of a cell containing the DATE function is the date format, but you can format the cells with the <emph>0</emph> number format, which displays the internal serial number of the date as a number.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148590" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="5">Syntax</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150474" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">DATE(year; month; day)</paragraph>
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<emph>Year</emph> is an integer between 1583 and 9956 or 0 and 99.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153222" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="174">In <emph>Tools - Options - $[officename] - General </emph>you can set from which year a two-digit number entry is recognized as 20xx.</paragraph>
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<emph>Month</emph> is an integer between 1 and 12 indicating the month.</paragraph>
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<emph>Day</emph> is a number between 1 and 31 indicating the day of the month.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156260" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">If the values for month and day are higher, they are carried over to the next digit. If you enter =DATE(00;12;31) the result will be "12/31/00." If, on the other hand, you enter =DATE(00;13;31) the result will be "1/31/01."</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152589" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">DATE("00;1;1") yields 1/1/00</paragraph>
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