Date(Year,Month,Day) not returnign correct date

[jlclyde]

In the AS400 it stores date as monthdayyear and does not seperate
them. So when it spits it out into excel this is what you get.
10012000. So the date shoudl be October first 2000. When I use this
formula if 1001200 was in cell A1 it woudl be =Date(Right(Year(A1),
4),Month(Left(A1,2)),Day(Right(Left(A1,4),2))) It returns the date
10-1-1905. Is this a bug or did I do something wrong? I have tried
using value and Int to straighten it out with no luck.

Thanks,
Jay

 

[John]

Hi
Try this =DATE(RIGHT(A1,4),LEFT(A1,2),MID(A1,3,2))
HTH
John

 

[Jarek Kujawa]

try modify yr formula to:

=Date(Right(A1,4),Left(A1,2),mid(A1,3,2))

HIH

 

[jlclyde]

Hi
Try this =DATE(RIGHT(A1,4),LEFT(A1,2),MID(A1,3,2))
HTH






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I learned something. Unless I write it exactly like you have it does
nto work. I am wondering why it does not work when you have in the
Year() , Month() and Day()? I am trying to show how the date function
works, that is why I was leaving in the functions for each part.
Thanks,
Jay

 

[Dave Peterson]

A1 isn't a date (yet). It's just a number.

When you use =year(2000), this returns the year for the day 2,000 days after a
start date (usually 12/31/1899 in wintel land). And 2000 days after that date
is June 22, 1905.

You could use:
=DATE(RIGHT(A1,4),LEFT(A1,2),MID(A1,3,2))
or
=--TEXT(A1,"00\-00\-0000")
And format the results as a date.

If your data is in a single column,
you could select the column
Data|Text to columns
Fixed width (but don't draw any lines)
choose Date (mdy)
and finish up the wizard.

 

[jlclyde]

A1 isn't a date (yet).  It's just a number.

When you use =year(2000), this returns the year for the day 2,000 days after a
start date (usually 12/31/1899 in wintel land).  And 2000 days after that date
is June 22, 1905.

You could use:
=DATE(RIGHT(A1,4),LEFT(A1,2),MID(A1,3,2))
or
=--TEXT(A1,"00\-00\-0000")
And format the results as a date.

If your data is in a single column,
you could select the column
Data|Text to columns
Fixed width (but don't draw any lines)
choose Date (mdy)
and finish up the wizard.

This makes a lot of sense now. I always had assumed that if you put
in Year, Month, or Day and included an integer it woudl just use that
number. Now I see that it is a number of days from 1-1-1900. So I no
longer need tyo use year, Month or Day unless I am using a date to
offset from.

Thanks for all the help,
Jay

 

[Per Jessen]

Jay,

As the value in A1 is not a true date, you have to do it like this:

=DATE(RIGHT(A1,4),LEFT(A1;2),MID(A1,3,2))

Regards,
Per