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Work with dates and times

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Work with dates and times

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- [Instructor] I've previously described how to work with numbers and strings, and now I'll move to the third most popular data type, dates. In Visual Basic, a date value contains both the date and the time, and there are a variety of ways of creating date variables. We'll look at three ways to set date and time values, with a literal, with parse, and by getting the current system clock information. To declare a variable, you start, like any other variable, with the dim keyword. And then here, instead of using a string value to set the literal date, I will use the date delimiters, which is the pound symbol or the number sign. Now I can put in the value I want, and it will take this literal value and put it in this literal date. You can also use date.parse, like this. Now I can put a string value in here, like that. And then it'll attempt to parse that value, if it looks like a valid date. Another way to do this is to work…

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