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EndOfMonth & RelativeDate

All you need to know to master dates in Coda

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Formulas: EndOfMonth() and RelativeDate()

Category: Dates/Times

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EndOfMonth()

Returns the last day of a chosen month

or stated otherwise...

Hey Coda, can you tell me the last day of this month?

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RelativeDate()

Adds a chosen amount of months to a date

put a bit simpler...

Hey Coda, can you to add some months to this date?

EndOfMonth() and RelativeDate() both have two parameters; one is shared and one differs.

EndOfMonth()

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DateTime

EndOfMonth(DateTime, MonthOffSet)

The specific date from which you want to extract a day, month, or year.

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MonthOffSet

EndOfMonth(DateTime, MonthOffSet)

The number of months to move forwards or backwards. 0 is month of DateTime.

RelativeDate()

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DateTime

RelativeDate(DateTime, Months)

The specific date from which you want to extract a day, month, or year.

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Months

RelativeDate(DateTime, Months)

The number of months to add, which can be negative.

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EndOfMonth

Dates can be particularly hard to deal with (no thanks to February). The last day of each month is often different but can easily be found via EndOfMonth() — Try the controls below to find the end of each month this year or use the MonthOffset parameter to skip forward a few months.

The last day of

January

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1/31/2024

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which falls on a

Wednesday

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But after-all I don’t care about

January

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- I really want to skip forward

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months from then to find that the end of

March

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3/31/2024

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RelativeDate

Relative Dates allow us to easily move forward a date by exactly one month with

one exception

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. Change the date control below to the last day of October to see what happens.

Choose a date →

10/25/2022

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One month later is:

11/25/2022

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One year later is:

10/25/2023

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The day of my chosen month is:

25

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The day of one month later is:

25

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Business Quarters

Business cycles often fall in quarters—or 3 month periods of time. If you work in a business with OKR’s you know all too well what I’m talking about.

Use the two buttons below to automatically change the start/end of a quarter and view the holidays that fall within. The buttons are using the formula and RelativeDate() and EndOfMonth() to quickly set these controls.

Quarter Cycler

Start:

Oct 1, 2022

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End:

Dec 31, 2022

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Advance Quarter

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11/11/2022

Veterans Day

11/26/2022

Thanksgiving Day

12/25/2022

Christmas Day

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Practice: Find the end of a month and the end of the month after

Done

Find people’s birthday for the current year

Done

Create Quick-Set buttons that move a controls forward and backwards by exactly 1 month

Done

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