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<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Year Function [Runtime]</title>
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<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created>
<lastedited date="2004-08-24T14:57:11">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148664" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03030106.xhp" name="Year Function [Runtime]">Year Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149655" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Returns the year from a serial date number that is generated by the DateSerial or the DateValue function.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154125" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147229" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Year (Number)</paragraph>
<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154685" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153970" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">Integer</paragraph>
<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150440" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Parameters:</paragraph>
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<emph>Number:</emph> Integer expression that contains the serial date number that is used to calculate the year.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152596" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">This function is the opposite of the <emph>DateSerial </emph>function, and returns the year of a serial date. For example, the expression:</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154319" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">Print Year(DateSerial(1994, 12, 20))</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149483" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">returns the value 1994.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3146985" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="12">Example:</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153952" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">Sub ExampleYear</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153363" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">MsgBox "" &amp; Year(Now) ,64,"Current year"</paragraph>
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