Month Function

Description

Returns a Variant (Integer) specifying a whole number between 1 and 12, inclusive, representing the month of the year.

Syntax

Month(date)

The required date argument is any Variant, numeric expression, string expression, or any combination, that can represent a date. If date contains Null, Null is returned.

See Also

Date function, Date statement, Day function, Now function, Weekday function, Year function.

Example

This example uses the Month function to obtain the month from a specified date. In the development environment, the date literal is displayed in short date format using the locale settings of your code.

Dim MyDate, MyMonth
MyDate = #February 12, 1969#            ' Assign a date.
MyMonth = Month(MyDate)                    ' MyMonth contains 2.

Example (Microsoft Access)

See the DateSerial function example (Microsoft Access).