DAY, MONTH, YEAR

Explanation

DAY, MONTH, YEAR are used for extraction of the day, month and year part from an Excel date.

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Syntax

To extract the day from the date:

=DAY(serial_number)

In the serial_number we can type the date, with quote marks – DAY(“13/05/2019”) or reference a cell which contains a date – DAY(A1)

To extract the month from the date:

=MONTH(serial_number)

In the serial_number we can type the date, with quote marks – MONTH(“13/05/2019”) or reference a cell which contains a date – MONTH(A1)

To extract the year from the date:

=YEAR(serial_number)

In the serial_number we can type the date, with quote marks – YEAR(“13/05/2019”) or reference a cell which contains a date – YEAR(A1)

Practice DAY, MONTH & YEAR functions

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