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Sorry JE, but I still don't follow. If .5 is noon and .75 equals 6:00 pm,
wouldn't that mean that 24 would be 24 days??

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"JE McGimpsey" wrote:

XL stores times as fractional days, so 12:00 noon =0.5, 6:00 pm = 0.75,
etc.

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Doc wrote:

I'm curious though, where did you come up with the "24" for the divisor??