Calculating differences in dates
 

I want to calculate the difference between todays date and dates in the
future in days, hours and minutes

eg Today 30/06/2005 10:37
Future date 03/07/2005 11:48

Difference 3 days 1 hour 11 minutes

What formula should I use and how should the cells be formatted?

Thanks for any help


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Hi Paul,
subtract NOW() from the future date

custom format to

dd" days ":hh" hours ":mm" minutes"

There maybe a better way but this will work.

HTH.


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Paul,

Is this any good?

=(INT(A1-TODAY())-(MOD(A1,1)-MOD(NOW(),1)<0))&" days
"&TEXT(MOD(A1-NOW(),1),"hh:mm:ss")

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I want to calculate the difference between todays date and dates in the
future in days, hours and minutes

eg Today 30/06/2005 10:37
Future date 03/07/2005 11:48

Difference 3 days 1 hour 11 minutes

What formula should I use and how should the cells be formatted?

Thanks for any help


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Hi Greg

That worked ok for the example I gave, but when I use future dates that
are months away I do not get the result I would expext

eg

Future Date 09/09/2005 08:54
Now 30/06/2005 11:23

Result 10:21:03

The hours and minutes look ok but not the days??????


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Bob

Thanks, that works fine

Paul


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That is because the dd will only go up to 31, then it cycles back to 1. Been
caught by that myself <vbg

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Hi Greg

That worked ok for the example I gave, but when I use future dates that
are months away I do not get the result I would expext

eg

Future Date 09/09/2005 08:54
Now 30/06/2005 11:23

Result 10:21:03

The hours and minutes look ok but not the days??????


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