Date and Time - YEAR Function

Description

The YEAR function returns the year corresponding to a date. The year is returned as an integer in the range 1900-9999.

YEAR (serial_number)

Argument	Description	Required/ Optional
Serial_number	The date of the year you want to find. Dates should be entered by using the DATE function, or as results of other formulas or functions. Problems can occur if dates are entered as text.	Required

Argument

Description

Required/ Optional

Serial_number

The date of the year you want to find. Dates should be entered by using the DATE function, or as results of other formulas or functions.

Problems can occur if dates are entered as text.

Required

Microsoft Excel stores dates as sequential serial numbers so they can be used in calculations. By default, January 1, 1900 is serial number 1, and January 1, 2008 is serial number 39448 because it is 39,448 days after January 1, 1900

Values returned by the YEAR, MONTH and DAY functions would be Gregorian values regardless of the display format for the supplied date value.

Excel 2007, Excel 2010, Excel 2013, Excel 2016

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