Get last months Date

Hi all,

Dates always seem to be a problem....I am trying to get last months date, I know it should be easy but its just not working..

I use the date command to get the current date. I then want to be able to sort of take one month away and get the previous months.....

Here is the code I am using at the moment.

Code:

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CurMon = Format(Date, "mmm")
LasMon = (Month(Date) - 1) & "\" & Day(Date) & "\" & Year(Date)
LasMon = Format(LasMon, "mmm")

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It doesn't work. If I declare LasMon as a date I receive an error...

Anyone know the easiest way to do this....

Cheers for any help

hallo

Have you tried the following:
dim date as Date
dim intmonth as integer

date = DateAdd("m", -1, Now())
intmonth = Month(date) 'This returns the number 1 to 12

Hope this helps!

[Edited by hermanvd on 10-03-2000 at 05:38 AM]

Hi here you go:

Code:

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Dim LasMon As String
Dim dDate As Date
Dim CurMon As String
Dim sDay As String
Dim sYear As String

CurMon = Format(Date, "mmm")

LastMonth = Month(Date) - 1
sDay = Day(Date)
sYear = Year(Date)

dDate = sDay & "/" & LastMonth & "/" & sYear

LasMon = Format(dDate, "mmm")

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Notice that I have a format of dd-mm-yyyy.
Notice also the direction of the slashes, it's slash and not backslash to format a date.

This code results in sep for my settings.

cheers

André

To hermanvd,

I haven't tried your method, but I will sometime today when I get the time.

Thanks

Andre,

Yes, I realised after I posted that the slashes were the wrong way around. I changed them in my code and it worked fine. Sometimes you just don't see it......Maybe I need my eyes testing or something !!!

Here is what I'm using to fill a combo with the present and last 2 months (Just in case anyone else has the same prob)

Code:

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With Me.CmbMonths
    For i = 0 To 2
        LasMon = (Month(Date) - i) & "/" & Day(Date) & "/" & Year(Date)
        MyMonth = Format(LasMon, "mmm")
        .AddItem MyMonth
    Next
    .ListIndex = 0
End With

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Thanks anyway

Cheers
Steve

You're welcome, and you are right sometimes you just can't see!!!

André

Hallo

I'm not sure if there maybe a new problem?! The DateAdd handles the problem you experience with dates in January.

Date = cdate("2000-01-01")
Date_Last_Month = DateAdd("m", -1, Date)'Answer = 1999-12-01


Am I missing something here?

Sorry Hermanvd,

I was referring to the other method of calculating the previous months....

Just had a look at your method and it seems fine

Thanks a lot for your help
Steve

Code:

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'this will do the job for you
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Option Explicit

Private Sub Command1_Click()
'variables for dates
Dim MyMonth As Variant, myDay As Variant, myYear As Variant
Date = Format(Date, "mm,dd,yyyy")
'the assigned date is today's date
MyMonth = Month(Format(Date, "mm,dd,yyyy"))
'subtract 1 month
MyMonth = MyMonth - 1
'Select the corresponding day for the value of myMonth
myDay = Day(Date)
'Select the year
myYear = Left(Format(Date, "YYYY,MM,DD"), 4)

'once you have it work with it
Select Case MyMonth
    Case 1
            MyMonth = "Jan " & myDay & ", " & myYear
    Case 2
            MyMonth = "Feb " & myDay & ", " & myYear
        Case 3
            MyMonth = "Mar " & myDay & ", " & myYear
        Case 4
            MyMonth = "Apr " & myDay & ", " & myYear
        Case 5
            MyMonth = "May " & myDay & ", " & myYear
        Case 6
            MyMonth = "Jun " & myDay & ", " & myYear
        Case 7
            MyMonth = "Jul " & myDay & ", " & myYear
        Case 8
            MyMonth = "Aug " & myDay & ", " & myYear
        Case 9
            MyMonth = "Sep " & myDay & ", " & myYear
        Case 10
            MyMonth = "Oct " & myDay & ", " & myYear
        Case 11
            MyMonth = "Nov " & myDay & ", " & myYear
        Case 2
            MyMonth = "Dec " & myDay & ", " & myYear
End Select
   
End Sub

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Instead of the case statement can you not say:

MyMonth = format(MyMonth & "/" & MyDay & "/" & MyYear,"mmm") & myDay & ", " & myYear

come on HeSaidJoe, your answer is just nonsense! :)

hermanvd's works

sarun's is probably dependant on regional settings