A1 isn't a date (yet). It's just a number.

When you use =year(2000), this returns the year for the day 2,000 days after a
start date (usually 12/31/1899 in wintel land). And 2000 days after that date
is June 22, 1905.

You could use:
=DATE(RIGHT(A1,4),LEFT(A1,2),MID(A1,3,2))
or
=--TEXT(A1,"00\-00\-0000")
And format the results as a date.

If your data is in a single column,
you could select the column
Data|Text to columns
Fixed width (but don't draw any lines)
choose Date (mdy)
and finish up the wizard.


jlclyde wrote:

In the AS400 it stores date as monthdayyear and does not seperate
them. So when it spits it out into excel this is what you get.
10012000. So the date shoudl be October first 2000. When I use this
formula if 1001200 was in cell A1 it woudl be =Date(Right(Year(A1),
4),Month(Left(A1,2)),Day(Right(Left(A1,4),2))) It returns the date
10-1-1905. Is this a bug or did I do something wrong? I have tried
using value and Int to straighten it out with no luck.

Thanks,
Jay

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Dave Peterson