Documentation/How Tos/Calc: DATEVALUE function

DATEVALUE

returns the date-time serial number, from a date as text.

Syntax:

DATEVALUE(datetext)

datetext is a date, expressed as text.

DATEVALUE returns the date-time serial number, which may be formatted to read as a date.

Example:

DATEVALUE("2007-11-23")

returns 39409, the date-time serial number for 23Nov2007 (assuming the default date-time starting date)

See also:

DATE, TIMEVALUE

Date & Time functions

Date & Time overview

Issues:

The forthcoming ODFF standard requires DATEVALUE to return the date-time serial number as a date, so Calc should automatically format the result as a date. However currently Calc seems to return the date-time serial number as a number, requiring the user to format the result manually. See Issue 84903