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Data Type: TimePeriod Base | ||||||||
The base or length of the timeperiod in exact months. Can also be the end of a timeperiod as a Date. | ||||||||
Used with Time to define a timeperiod. Where Time refers to the start of the timeperiod, use Base to define the length of the timeperiod, in exact months (eg 1,3,5,6,12,18), or to specifically define the end of the timeperiod (eg 15/5/2006). Base can be one of three things:
The Finish Date of the timeperiod If you use this variable to specify the end of the timeperiod, you may wonder, in the above example, whether the timeperiod finishes at the start of theday specified, in this case 1st July, or the end of that day. In BF (and Excel) a date always expresses the very first instant of that day, so in this case the timeperiod finishes with the very last second of June 30. This is in also keeping with BF"s rule of "include the start date, exclude the finish date". How Base adds itself to Time
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