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This functionality has been made obsolete by newer, better solved CDateTime available directly in core instead.

 

Description

 

The DT_Year() function returns the year from a given date string.

 

Syntax

 

 DT_Year(sDate) AS NUMBER

 

Returns

 

Returns AS NUMBER

   The year.

 

Parameters

 

sDate AS STRING

   The date string, if empty the functions returns the current year.

 

Remarks

 

The value of sDate parameter should be like “mm-dd-yy” or “mm-dd-yyyy”.

If the the year is two digits only the calculation is done using the century (default %DT_DATE_CENTURY).

 

Restrictions

 

 

See also

 

  DT_Month, DT_Day

 

Examples

 

MSGBOX 0, DT_Year("06-13-05")  ' results 2005