Re: [libreoffice-users] formula years since date

At 22:44 19/07/2014 -0400, James Lockie wrote:
> On 07/19/14 21:34, Brian Barker wrote:
> > At 20:27 19/07/2014 -0400, James Lockie wrote:
> > > I want the years since a date and today. I tried this function:
> > > =YEARS(7/16/2012,TODAY(),1)
> > > but it returns 1900.
> >
> > Your first argument is 7 divided by 16 divided by 2,012. This is 
> > approximately 0.00022, representing - as a date and time - nineteen 
> > seconds after midnight on the date origin. So I'd expect the result 
> > to be 115. But in any case it won't have anything to do with a date 
> > in July 2012.
> >
> > The arguments of YEARS() need to be numeric dates, so I think you 
> > need something like
> > =YEARS(DATE(2012,7,16),TODAY(),1)
> > or
> > =YEARS(DATEVALUE("7/16/2012"),TODAY(),1)
>
> I tried:
> =YEARS(DATE(2012,7,16),TODAY(),1)
> I still get "1900".
> The cell format is YYYY.

Oh, well you will. The result of this formula is 2 (meaning two 
years) but if you interpret this number as a date it represents two 
days after the date origin - which is indeed a date within the year 1900.

At 22:47 19/07/2014 -0400, James Lockie wrote:
> I set the cell format to numeric and got what I want. :-)

Good-oh!

Brian Barker 


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