Excel Function YEAR

YEAR(serial_number)

Returns the year as an integer given a date serial number.

serial_number

The date that contains the year you want to find.

Remarks

* The "serial_number" can be a date value, a serial number or a reference to a cell containing a date.
* If "serial_number" < 0, then #NUM! is returned.
* If "serial_number" is not a valid date, then #VALUE! is returned.
* You can use the DATE function to return the date as a date serial number given a year, month, day.
* You can use the DATEVALUE function to return the serial number representing a date in a text format.
* You can use the DAY function to return the day as an integer given a date serial number.
* You can use the MONTH function to return the month as an integer given a date serial number.
* You can use the NOW function to return the serial number of the current system date and time.
* You can use the TODAY function to return the serial number of the current system date.
* You can use the YEARFRAC function to return the number of years as a decimal between two dates.
* The equivalent VBA function is VBA.YEAR
* For the Microsoft documentation refer to support.microsoft.com

	A	B
1	=TODAY() = Monday, January 03, 2022	01 July 2003
2	=NOW() = Monday, January 03, 2022, 09:02	=NOW() = 03/01/2022
3	=YEAR(B1) = 2003	=NOW() = 44564
4	=YEAR("01 July 2003") = 2003
5	=YEAR(B2) = 2022
6	=YEAR(38093) = 2004
7	=YEAR(DATE(1977,7,1)) = 1977
8	=YEAR(0) = 1900
9	=YEAR(-10) = #NUM!
10	=YEAR("some text") = #VALUE!

1 - What is the current system date. This cell has been formatted with the number format "dddd, mmmm dd, yyyy".
2 - What is the current system date and time. This cell has been formatted with the number format "dddd, mmmm dd, yyyy, hh:mm".