"Peo Sjoblom" wrote in message
...

"Bruce Sinclair" wrote
in message ...
In article , "Peo Sjoblom"
wrote:
That's what I said, if it is formatting then the values are the same and
you
cannot use a function to
find a difference. I mean what difference do you see between

3:00

and

3:00:00

except that one is formatted for seconds as well, the underlying value is
still 0.125 and multiplied with 24 it will return 3

I was playing with this yesterday as it happens and yes, if you enter
3:00
it's effectively 3 hours.

Suggest if the OP want minutes, they need to use 00:03:00
Works for me. :)
If they already have data in a "wrong" format, as you suggest, they have
a
problem :)


I agree he has to enter the first 2:00 and 3:00 in his example as 00:02:00
and 00:03:00 or else
it will be hours

But of course you don't need to type in all those zeros. 0:2 and 0:3 will
do.
And if the data has been entered wrongly, it can be converted by using Paste
Special/ Divide, by 60.
--
David Biddulph