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I working on a program that will take into account the time of day before determining the date. I know it will take an If, Then statement (I think), but all I can think of is

If [Time] between 12:00:00 AM and 05:00:00 PM then [Date] = Date()-1

Hopefully that will make sense somehow. That code does not work obviously, I just don't know what to do. Any help would be appreciated.

What are you trying to accomplish?

You can call the function

Date() - 1

and it will subtract one day from the current day. Likewise,

Date() - 30

is 30 days earlier than the current date.

I do need the day to be one previous, but it depends on the time of day. If the entry is made between 12:00 AM and 5:00 PM, it needs to be the previous days date, if not the current day would be used.

Do you still need help on this?

Yes, sorry about the delay

Try this:

Private Sub DateSub()

' declare variables
Dim intHourCurrent As Integer
Dim blnHourValid As Boolean
Dim strYourDate As String

' fetch current hour
intHourCurrent = DatePart("h", Now)

' if hour is between 00:00 and 17:00 then set flag to true, else false
blnHourValid = IIf((intHourCurrent >= 0 And intHourCurrent <= 17), True, False)

' if flag is true, store the previous day's date, else the current date
strYourDate = IIf(blnHourValid, Date - 1, Date)

' display results
MsgBox ("blnHourValid = " & blnHourValid & ", strYourDate = " & strYourDate)

End Sub

EDIT: I used the current time on my PC clock which was 8:30 am. I didn't change the clock to test the FALSE condition.