Because the lunch was given as an integer (45) which in excel time equals
45*24 hours thus you need to convert it to excel minutes x/60/24 = x/1440


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"Hanr3" wrote in message
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why divide by 1440?
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"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

assuming you are using real time formats in start and end cells and
integer
minutes in lunch cell, e.g.

08:00 17:30 (or 05:30 PM) 45

would give

=End-Start-Lunch/1440

formatted as time

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"BruDe" wrote in message
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I've been trying to figure out how I can calculate the differenc
between
two times. The project I'm working on tracks attendance patterns using
Excel. So, what I want it to do is take a start time, end time, then
subtract a lunch period (from 30 - 60 minutes) and display the total
number
of hours worked.