Calculate Difference Between two Dates in Excel VBA

Calculate Difference Between two Dates FI

Calculate Difference Between two Dates in Excel VBA. Most of the time we wanted find differences of two dates. It’s a very common and regular exercise in Excel and VBA when dealing with dates. We can find this using Excel VBA DateDiff function. In order to calculate we need start date and end date. It returns an integer value as a result. We use Excel DateDif function in Excel to perform same task.

Macro to Calculate Days Between two Dates in Excel VBA

Let us see the macro to calculate Difference Between two Dates in Excel VBA.

'Calculate Difference Between two Dates in Excel VBA
'Calculate Difference Between two Dates in Excel VBA
Sub VBA_Calculate_Difference_Between_Two_Dates()
    
    'Variable declaration
    Dim sDate As Date, eDate As Date
    Dim iValue As Integer
    
    'Start Date
    sDate = "10-Jan-2020"
    
    'End Date
    eDate = "25-May-2020"
    
    iValue = DateDiff("d", sDate, eDate)
    
    'Display output on the screen
    MsgBox "The Difference Between two Dates in days : " & iValue, vbInformation, "Difference Between two Dates in Days"
    
End Sub

Here is the output screenshot of above mcaro.
Calculate Difference Between two Dates

Function to Get the Difference Between two Dates in Excel VBA

Here is the function to find difference between two days in Excel VBA. Where StartDate and EndDate are two dates to select dates from the range on the worksheet.

'Function to get Difference Between two Dates in Excel VBA
Function VBA_Calculate_Difference_Between_Two_Dates(StartDate As Range, EndDate As Range)
        
    'Calculate Difference Between two Dates in Excel VBA
    VBA_Calculate_Difference_Between_Two_Dates = DateDiff("d", StartDate, EndDate)
   
End Function

Output:Here is the screenshot for your reference for the above function.
Function to get the Difference Between two Dates in Excel VBA

Instructions to Run VBA Macro Code or Procedure:

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