Month Function (Visual Basic) 

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Returns an Integer value from 1 through 12 representing the month of the year.

Public Function Month(ByVal DateValue As DateTime) As Integer

Parameters

  • DateValue
    Required. Date value from which you want to extract the month.

Remarks

You can also obtain the month of the year by calling DatePart and specifying DateInterval.Month for the Interval argument.

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 thisDate As Date
Dim thisMonth As Integer
thisDate = #2/12/1969#
thisMonth = Month(thisDate)
' thisMonth now contains 2.

Requirements

Namespace: Microsoft.VisualBasic

Module: DateAndTime

Assembly: Visual Basic Runtime Library (in Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll)

See Also

Reference

Day Function (Visual Basic)
Now Property
Weekday Function (Visual Basic)
Year Function (Visual Basic)
DatePart Function (Visual Basic)
System
DateTime
ArgumentException
ArgumentOutOfRangeException