GetDate

Description

Interpret a string as a date.

Type

DATETIME

Arguments

Type

Meaning

1

STRING

Textual representation of a date/time.

Evaluation

Returns the date which corresponds to the input text. Legal text is the same as is legal for symbolic date/times. For example, the expression:

GetDate("January 1, Current Year")

is exactly equivalent to the expression:

@"January 1, Current Year".

 
GetDate("January 20, 1996")
 
@"24:00 January 20, 1996"