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Asked: 2026-06-16T03:30:54+00:00

I Have been playing with variations of the Month… function in access query builder.

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I Have been playing with variations of the Month… function in access query builder. I am having trouble building a date value from an expression. I am looking to create my own date that will be behind the scenes to perform some filtering and other tasks. My problem is that I cant seem to get the Month(number) function to do what I think it should be doing. Here is a summary of what I am looking for.

5/31/2012

Through something like this

DateSerial(Year(Date()),Month(5),Day(31))
Also
DateSerial(Year(Date()),Month("5"),Day("31"))

When I try these as an experssion the return is

1/30/2012

Im sure I am misunderstanding the structure. Please educate me.

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  1. Editorial Team

    DateSerial requires three integers, year, month, day:

     DateSerial(1992,5,2)

 02/05/1992 ''Euro locale

    Year(Date()) returns an integer, so you can substitute:

     DateSerial(Year(Date()),5,31)

    Interestingly, the zeroth day is the last day of the previous month:

     DateSerial(2012,12,0)=30/11/2012

    — http://office.microsoft.com/en-ie/access-help/HV080206953.aspx

    As an aside, do not forget that all dates are numbers.

    Month(5) will equal 1, but Month(41263)=12 !

    Also 

    ?month(100)
 4 
?Year(100)
 1900
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