How to determine the number of month between 2 periods?
 

Does anyone know how to determine the number of month between 2 periods? such
as
23 Feb, 2006 and 1 Apr, 2006, it returns 2 months difference and not
counting the starting day. And always start to count Feb, 2006 and Apr, 2006.
Does anyone have any suggestion?
Thank you in advance
Eric

How to determine the number of month between 2 periods?
 

If I understand correctly then you want the difference between 2 dates
including the start and end date i.e. 1/1/2007 - 30/9/2007 would return 9. If
my understanding is correct then this will do it.

=(YEAR(B1)-YEAR(C1))*12+MONTH(B1)-MONTH(C1)+1

Note you will have to change the cell format to General after entering this.

Mike

"Eric" wrote:

Does anyone know how to determine the number of month between 2 periods? such
as
23 Feb, 2006 and 1 Apr, 2006, it returns 2 months difference and not
counting the starting day. And always start to count Feb, 2006 and Apr, 2006.
Does anyone have any suggestion?
Thank you in advance
Eric

How to determine the number of month between 2 periods?
 

One place to start is

A1: 23 Feb 2006
B1: 1 Apr 2006
C1: =DATEDIF(A1,B1,"m")

However, you need to be careful when it comes to how "month" is defined.
Is 31 January 2007 to 28 February 2007 one month? or zero? (Datedif
returns 0)


In article ,
Eric wrote:

Does anyone know how to determine the number of month between 2 periods? such
as
23 Feb, 2006 and 1 Apr, 2006, it returns 2 months difference and not
counting the starting day. And always start to count Feb, 2006 and Apr, 2006.
Does anyone have any suggestion?
Thank you in advance
Eric

How to determine the number of month between 2 periods?
 

Thank you for your suggestion
Eric

"Mike" wrote:

If I understand correctly then you want the difference between 2 dates
including the start and end date i.e. 1/1/2007 - 30/9/2007 would return 9. If
my understanding is correct then this will do it.

=(YEAR(B1)-YEAR(C1))*12+MONTH(B1)-MONTH(C1)+1

Note you will have to change the cell format to General after entering this.

Mike

"Eric" wrote:

Does anyone know how to determine the number of month between 2 periods? such
as
23 Feb, 2006 and 1 Apr, 2006, it returns 2 months difference and not
counting the starting day. And always start to count Feb, 2006 and Apr, 2006.
Does anyone have any suggestion?
Thank you in advance
Eric

How to determine the number of month between 2 periods?
 

That's OK providing that you realise that 1/1/07 to 31/1/07 is one month,
but 31/1/07 to the following day, 1/2/07, is 2 months.
--
David Biddulph

"Mike" wrote in message
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If I understand correctly then you want the difference between 2 dates
including the start and end date i.e. 1/1/2007 - 30/9/2007 would return 9.
If
my understanding is correct then this will do it.

=(YEAR(B1)-YEAR(C1))*12+MONTH(B1)-MONTH(C1)+1

Note you will have to change the cell format to General after entering
this.

Mike

"Eric" wrote:

Does anyone know how to determine the number of month between 2 periods?
such
as
23 Feb, 2006 and 1 Apr, 2006, it returns 2 months difference and not
counting the starting day. And always start to count Feb, 2006 and Apr,
2006.
Does anyone have any suggestion?
Thank you in advance
Eric

How to determine the number of month between 2 periods?
 

Thank everyone for suggestions
I try to ignore the day and count the month only on my approach
Thank everyone
Eric

"JE McGimpsey" wrote:

One place to start is

A1: 23 Feb 2006
B1: 1 Apr 2006
C1: =DATEDIF(A1,B1,"m")

However, you need to be careful when it comes to how "month" is defined.
Is 31 January 2007 to 28 February 2007 one month? or zero? (Datedif
returns 0)


In article ,
Eric wrote:

Does anyone know how to determine the number of month between 2 periods? such
as
23 Feb, 2006 and 1 Apr, 2006, it returns 2 months difference and not
counting the starting day. And always start to count Feb, 2006 and Apr, 2006.
Does anyone have any suggestion?
Thank you in advance
Eric