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<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Month Function [Runtime]</title>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153127" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03030104.xhp" name="Month Function [Runtime]">Month Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148550" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Returns the month of a year from a serial date that is generated by the DateSerial or the DateValue function.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145068" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Syntax:</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150398" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Month (Number)</paragraph>
<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154366" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Return value:</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156423" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><emph>Number:</emph> Numeric expression that contains the serial date number that is used to determine the month of the year.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153770" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">This function is the opposite of the <emph>DateSerial</emph> function. It returns the month in the year that corresponds to the serial date that is generated by <emph>DateSerial</emph> or <emph>DateValue</emph>. For example, the expression</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147426" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Print Month(DateSerial(1994, 12, 20))</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145366" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">returns the value 12.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149664" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">MsgBox "" &amp; Month(Now) ,64,"The current month"</paragraph>
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