Month

FreeBASIC

Month
 
Gets the month of the year from a Date Serial

Syntax

Declare Function Month ( ByVal date_serial As Double ) As Long

Usage

#include "vbcompat.bi"
result = Month( date_serial )

Parameters

date_serial
the date

Return Value

Returns the month number from a variable containing a date in Date Serial format.

The month values are in the range 1-12 being 1 for January and 12 for December.

Description


The compiler will not recognize this function unless vbcompat.bi is included.

Example

#include "vbcompat.bi"

Dim a As Double = DateSerial(2005,11,28) + TimeSerial(7,30,50)

Print Format(a, "yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss "); Month(a)


Differences from QB

  • Did not exist in QB. This function appeared in PDS and VBDOS

See also