DADiSP Worksheet Functions > Function Categories > Time and Date Functions > DECDATE

 

DECDATE

Purpose:

Converts a decimal date series to date data.

Syntax:

DECDATE(dateser, "date")

dateser

-

A series of decimal date values where each value represents the day of the year.

"date"

-

Optional. A string, the starting date in dd/mm/yy format. Defaults to the date of the series.

Returns:

A series of date values.

Example:

W1: {10, 100, 200, 300}

W2: decdate(w1, "1-1-2030")

 

W2 contains the time values 1/10/30, 4/10/30, 7/19/30, 10/27/30

Remarks:

A decimal date value is an integer indicating the day of the year such that the value 1 represents the first day.

 

Only the year portion of the date string or series date is used to set the starting year.

See Also:

DECTIME

DTXY

JULYMD

STRJUL

STRTOD

TODSTR

UNIXDT

XYDT