Year()

Convert a date value to the year as a number.

Syntax

Year(<dDate>) --> nYear

Arguments

<dDate> --> is the date value to convert.

Returns

Year() returns the year of the specified date value including the century digits as a four-digit number. Specifying a null/empty date (CTOD("")) returns zero.

Description

Year() is a date conversion function that converts a date value to a numeric year value.

Year() is a member of a group of functions that return components of a date value as numbers. Others includes Day() and Month() which return the day and month values as numbers.

Examples

dDate := CTOD('01/01/00')

Year(dDate)

* Result: 2000

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