I am using a datedif formula to calculate an employee's number of years
worked. I have the hire date and current(sheet) date. I have used the
formula
=datedif(cellwithcurrentdate,cellwithhiredate,"y") . The return is
1/17/1900. What am I doing wrong?

You aren't doing anything wrong... that is just Excel trying to be helpful
(it saw you working with dates, so it gave you its answer as a date)... just
Format the cell to General and it will report 17 as the result.

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Rick (MVP - Excel)


"marie" wrote in message
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I am using a datedif formula to calculate an employee's number of years
worked. I have the hire date and current(sheet) date. I have used the
formula
=datedif(cellwithcurrentdate,cellwithhiredate,"y") . The return is
1/17/1900. What am I doing wrong?

I would have expected an error, as (assuming that hire date is in the past)
the syntax would be
=datedif(cellwithhiredate,cellwithcurrentdate,"y") not
not =datedif(cellwithcurrentdate,cellwithhiredate,"y")
--
David Biddulph

"Rick Rothstein" wrote in message
...
You aren't doing anything wrong... that is just Excel trying to be helpful
(it saw you working with dates, so it gave you its answer as a date)...
just Format the cell to General and it will report 17 as the result.

--
Rick (MVP - Excel)


"marie" wrote in message
...
I am using a datedif formula to calculate an employee's number of years
worked. I have the hire date and current(sheet) date. I have used the
formula
=datedif(cellwithcurrentdate,cellwithhiredate,"y") . The return is
1/17/1900. What am I doing wrong?