Year Function

Description

Returns a Variant (Integer) containing a whole number representing the year.

Syntax

Year(date)

The required date argument is any Variant, numeric expression, string expression, or any combination, that can represent a date. If date contains Null, Null is returned.

See Also

Date function, Date statement, Day function, Month function, Now function, Weekday function.

Example

This example uses the Year function to obtain the year from a specified date. In the development environment, the date literal is displayed in short date format using the locale settings of your code.

Dim MyDate, MyYear
MyDate = #February 12, 1969#            ' Assign a date.
MyYear = Year(MyDate)                        ' MyYear contains 1969.

Example (Microsoft Access)

See the DateSerial function example (Microsoft Access).