How to get Year + Month with Month leading zero

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone,

I have a little trick that I'm using to concat Year & Month with a leading zero for the month and the value still be a number.

Just do Year * 100 + Month.

Example:

2023 * 100 + 3 

= 202300 + 3 

= 202303

works also when you have months higher than 9:

2023 * 100 + 10
= 202300 + 10
= 202310

Have fun with this!

[nji1000]

Thanks - neat trick and helped me solve my problem.

To add to that - if you need to make an 8 digit date from month-year data you can do:

YEAR *10000 + MONTH *100 +1

e.g. to get 20250401

[Anonymous]

Hi @Anonymous ,

Thanks for your nice sharing!

And there's another way to get year month number.

YearMonthNumber = VALUE(FORMAT([Date],"YYYYMM"))

If there is only the FORMAT function, it will return the text format, and you can manually modify it to a numeric type, or you can add another VALUE function to convert to a numeric type like me.

Best Regards,

Stephen Tao

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[BellPower]

Hi,

I was wondering what the easiest way is to have the number first. Like 012020 or even something like 01/2020, this is much easier to read.