This method is obsolete. See the Remarks section below.

Description

The Utilities.EncodeDate method returns a specific value calculated from the given year, month and day.

Declaration

Utilities.EncodeDate(Year, Month, Day)

Year	[in]	Required	Integer
Month	[in]	Required	Integer
Day	[in]	Required	Integer
Result	Variant

Applies To

The method is applied to the following object:

Utilities

Parameters

The method has the following parameters:

Year

Specifies the year of the date to be converted to a Variant value. The Year parameter ranges between 1 and 9999.

Month

Specifies the month of the date to be converted to a Variant value. Valid Month values are 1 through 12.

Day

Specifies the day of the month of the date to be converted to a Variant value. Valid Day values are 1 through 28, 29, 30, or 31, depending on the Month and Year values.

Result Value

The resulting value of EncodeDate indicates the number of days that have passed since 12/30/1899. Negative resulting values of this function mean that the day is earlier than 12/30/1899.

Remarks

This method is obsolete. It is supported for backward compatibility only. To create a date value with certain year, month and day parts, use the aqDateTime.SetDateElements method.

Utilities.EncodeDate Method