DatePart Function (Visual Basic) 

Returns an Integer value containing the specified component of a given Date value.

Public Overloads Function DatePart( _
   ByVal Interval As DateInterval, _
   ByVal DateValue As DateTime, _
   Optional ByVal FirstDayOfWeekValue As FirstDayOfWeek = VbSunday, _
   Optional ByVal FirstWeekOfYearValue As FirstWeekOfYear = VbFirstJan1 _
) As Integer
' -or-
Public Overloads Function DatePart( _
    ByVal Interval As String, _
   ByVal DateValue As Object, _
   Optional ByVal DayOfWeek As FirstDayOfWeek = FirstDayOfWeek.Sunday, _
   Optional ByVal WeekOfYear As FirstWeekOfYear = FirstWeekOfYear.Jan1 _
) As Integer

Parameters

• Interval
  Required. DateInterval enumeration value or String expression representing the part of the date/time value you want to return.

• DateValue
  Required. Date value that you want to evaluate.

• FirstDayOfWeekValue, DayOfWeek
  Optional. A value chosen from the FirstDayOfWeek enumeration that specifies the first day of the week. If not specified, FirstDayOfWeek.Sunday is used.

• FirstWeekOfYearValue, WeekOfYear
  Optional. A value chosen from the FirstWeekOfYear enumeration that specifies the first week of the year. If not specified, FirstWeekOfYear.Jan1 is used.

Settings

The Interval argument can have one of the following settings.

The FirstDayOfWeekValue argument can have one of the following settings.

The FirstWeekOfYearValue argument can have one of the following settings.

Exceptions

See the "Error number" column if you are upgrading Visual Basic 6.0 applications that use unstructured error handling. (You can compare the error number against the Number Property (Err Object).) However, when possible, you should consider replacing such error control with Structured Exception Handling Overview for Visual Basic.

Remarks

You can use the DatePart function to evaluate a date/time value and return a specific component. For example, you might use DatePart to calculate the day of the week or the current hour.

If you choose DateInterval.Weekday for the Interval argument, the returned value is consistent with the values of the FirstDayOfWeek enumeration. If you choose DateInterval.WeekOfYear, DatePart uses the Calendar and CultureInfo classes of the System.Globalization namespace to determine your current settings.

The FirstDayOfWeekValue argument affects calculations that use the DateInterval.Weekday and DateInterval.WeekOfYear Interval settings. The FirstWeekOfYearValue argument affects calculations that specify DateInterval.WeekOfYear for Interval.

Since every Date value is supported by a DateTime structure, its methods give you additional options in retrieving date/time parts. For example, you can obtain the entire date value of a Date variable, with the time value set to midnight, as follows:

Dim CurrDatTim As Date = Now   ' Current date and time.
Dim LastMidnight As Date = CurrDatTim.Date   ' At midnight.

Example

This example takes a date and, using the DatePart function, displays the quarter of the year in which it occurs.

Dim FirstDate, Msg As String   'Declare variables.
Dim SecondDate As Date
FirstDate = InputBox("Enter a date:")
SecondDate = CDate(FirstDate)
Msg = "Quarter: " & DatePart(DateInterval.Quarter, SecondDate)
MsgBox(Msg)

Requirements

Namespace: Microsoft.VisualBasic

Module: DateAndTime

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

See Also

Reference

DateAdd Function (Visual Basic)
DateDiff Function (Visual Basic)
Day Function (Visual Basic)
Format Function
Now Property
Weekday Function (Visual Basic)
Year Function (Visual Basic)
Date Data Type (Visual Basic)
System