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Today as a Serial Date

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September 2, 2009 at 5:27 pm

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Hi,
Does anyone know how I can return todays date in serial format from sql server ?
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matt

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Matthew24 SSCommitted Points: 1736 More actions · Answer 2

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I've had a look at the thread. I'm not sure it answers my question. I'm looking for the serial date like Excel produces, ie an integer representing the number of days since 1st Jan 1900. I need this as I am working with an application that records its dates in this format, and I was hoping that SQL Server had a similar function.

Many thanks,

Matt

LutzM SSC Guru Points: 107049 More actions · Answer 3

Would the following give the expected result?

SELECT DATEDIFF(dd,0,GETDATE())

However, it's interesting that EXCEL returns 40062 for today (2009-09-06), but SQL Server returns 40060...

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Matthew24 SSCommitted Points: 1736 More actions · Answer 4

Thanks Lutz, this is exactly what I needed. The application uses the 0 date as Jan 1st 1801 so I have to do some conversion work anyway !

Matt

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004356 More actions · Answer 5

lmu92 (9/6/2009)
Would the following give the expected result?
SELECT DATEDIFF(dd,0,GETDATE())
However, it's interesting that EXCEL returns 40062 for today (2009-09-06), but SQL Server returns 40060...

The "0" date for for the default date serial numbers behind the scenes in Excel isn't 01/01/1900... it 12/31/1899. Further, Excel thinks that 2/29/1900 was a valid date (ccan you believe they still haven't fixed this stuff even after y2k happened???? :-P)

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