{"id":108,"date":"2020-05-04T22:15:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T16:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/veracitiz.com\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2024-04-17T14:46:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T09:16:13","slug":"tm1-dates-v-s-excel-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/veracitiz.com\/blog\/tm1-dates-v-s-excel-dates\/","title":{"rendered":"TM1 DATES v\/s EXCEL DATES\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Dealing with dates in TM1&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Both TM1 and Excel use a &#8220;date serial&#8221; system in which any date that you use in calculations is represented as a positive integer value.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-109 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/veracitiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/date-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"date\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/veracitiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/date-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/veracitiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/date-768x569.jpg 768w, https:\/\/veracitiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/date.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In the case of Excel, the starting date is 31st December 1899. That is, if you enter the value 1 into a cell in Excel and format it as a date, you&#8217;ll see the value as 31st December&nbsp; 1899. 2 will be on the 1st of January 1900, 3 the 2nd of January, and so on.In other words,&nbsp; every full day that passes adds 1 to the serial date.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/veracitiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/V-TECH-NOTE-TM1-DATES-vs-EXCEL-DATES.pdf\">\u27a4TM1 DATES vs EXCEL DATES<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dealing with dates in TM1&nbsp; Both TM1 and Excel use a &#8220;date serial&#8221; system in which any date that you use in calculations is represented as a positive integer value. In the case of Excel, the starting date is 31st December 1899. That is, if you enter the value 1 into a cell in Excel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-note","tag-tm1"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>TM1 DATES v\/s EXCEL DATES\u00a0 - Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/veracitiz.com\/blog\/tm1-dates-v-s-excel-dates\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TM1 DATES v\/s EXCEL DATES\u00a0 - Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dealing with dates in TM1&nbsp; Both TM1 and Excel use a &#8220;date serial&#8221; system in which any date that you use in calculations is represented as a positive integer value. 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