title: Find first date that contains a specific year
body: <p>I'm trying to build a MATCH formula (or a similar one) that returns the position of the first value (date) within a range that matches a specific year.</p>
  
  <p>For example, if I have a list of dates, like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>      A
  1 12-31-2014
  2 11-30-2015
  3 12-29-2016
  4 12-30-2017
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>For the value 2016, it should return 3.</p>
  
  <p><code>MATCH(2016,A:A,0)</code> doesn't work, since it's not an exact match. I can't use any aux columns either nor modify the dates.</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas?</p>