Difference between DateValue and CDate in VBA

Question

I am new to VBA and I am working on a module to read in data from a spreadsheet and calculate values based on dates from the spreadsheet. I read in the variables as a String

Answer 1

DateValue will return only the date. CDate will preserve the date and time:

? DateValue("2014-07-24 15:43:06")
24/07/2014

? CDate("2014-07-24 15:43:06")
24/07/2014 15:43:06 

Similarly you can use TimeValue to return only the time portion:

? TimeValue("2014-07-24 15:43:06")
15:43:06 

? TimeValue("2014-07-24 15:43:06") > TimeSerial(12, 0, 0)
True

Also, as guitarthrower says, DateValue (and TimeValue) will only accept String parameters, while CDate can handle numbers as well. To emulate these functions for numeric types, use CDate(Int(num)) and CDate(num - Int(num)).