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VB & VBA in a Nutshell: The Language
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VB & VBA in a Nutshell: The Language

by Paul Lomax
October 1998
Intermediate to advanced
656 pages
16h 10m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Calendar Property

Syntax

Calendar = calendarconstant

calendarconstant can be either of the following constants:

Constant Value Description
vbCalGreg 0 Application uses the Gregorian calendar (default)
vbCalHijri 1 Application uses the Hijri calendar

Description

Returns or sets a value specifying the type of calendar to use with your project. The Gregorian calendar year of 1998 (which is based on the birth of Christ) is roughly equivalent to the Hijri year of 1418 (which is based on the birth of Mohammed). Note that the new year of each calendar is different, and the Hijri calendar, being based more accurately on the cycles of the moon, is 11 days shorter than the Gregorian calendar.

Example

Calendar = vbCalHijri
MsgBox Format(Now, "dd-mm-yyyy")

Programming Tips and Gotchas

Unless you are writing applications that will be used by or for users living or working in certain Muslim countries that use the Hijri calendar (for example, Saudi Arabia), you shouldn't need to set the Calendar property.

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