DATESTRING

Date & time

Hidden helper that formats a serial as a date string.

Syntax

DATESTRING(serial)

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More Date & time functions

DATE DATEDIF DATEVALUE DAY DAYS DAYS360 EDATE EOMONTH HOUR ISOWEEKNUM MINUTE MONTH

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