Year

Gets the year from a Date Serial

Syntax
   Declare Function Year ( ByVal date_serial As Double ) As Long

Usage
   #include "vbcompat.bi"
   result = Year( date_serial )

Parameters
   date_serial
      the date

Return Value
   Returns the year from a  variable containing a date in  Date Serial  
   format. 

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 "); Year(a)

Differences from QB
   * Did not exist in QB. This function appeared in PDS and VBDOS

See also
   * Date Serials

