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# DATE

This function calculates a date specified by year, month, day and displays it in the cell's formatting. The default format of a cell containing the DATE function is the date format, but you can format the cells with any other number format.

This function is part of the Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) standard Version 1.2. (ISO/IEC 26300:2-2015)

### Syntax

DATE(year; month; day)

\<emph\>Year\</emph\> is an integer between 1583 and 9956 or 0 and 99.

In LibreOffice - PreferencesTools - Options - LibreOffice - General you can set from which year a two-digit number entry is recognized as 20xx.

\<emph\>Month\</emph\> is an integer between 1 and 12 indicating the month.

\<emph\>Day\</emph\> is a number between 1 and 31 indicating the day of the month.

If the values for month and day are higher, they are carried over to the next digit. If you enter =DATE(00;12;31) the result will be "12/31/00." If, on the other hand, you enter =DATE(00;13;31) the result will be "1/31/01."

### Example:

=DATE(00;1;31) yields the date 2000-01-31 written as 1/31/00 if the cell format setting is MM/DD/YY.

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DATE wiki page.

Date & Time Functions

DATE

DATEDIF

DATEVALUE

DAY

DAYS

DAYS360

DAYSINMONTH

DAYSINYEAR

EASTERSUNDAY

EDATE

EOMONTH

HOUR

ISLEAPYEAR

ISOWEEKNUM

MINUTE

MONTH

MONTHS

NETWORKDAYS

NETWORKDAYS.INTL

NOW

SECOND

TIME

TIMEVALUE

TODAY

WEEKDAY

WEEKNUM

WEEKNUM_EXCEL2003

WEEKNUM_OOO

WEEKS

WEEKSINYEAR

WORKDAY

WORKDAY.INTL

YEAR

YEARFRAC

YEARS