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periods of time in excel
Some advice will be appreciate for the following:
Are there any way to calculate in Excel the HOURS and MINUTES elapsed between any time-any day and "other" any time-any day, let's say between 10/23/2003 & 11/23/ 2003 or 10/23/2002 & 11/23/2003. Any explanation will be greatly appreciate Orlando Barreto Mechanioal Engineer |
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periods of time in excel
Excel stored date/time values as the number of days
and the fraction of a day past a start date. You do not have to worry about what day is the start date. If you put a date in A1 and this formula in another cell = A1 + 1 that cell will have a date one day later than A1. The day is divided into fractions based on the time. If you use have a time in cell A1 and this formula in anther cell = A1 + 0.5 you will have a time 12 hours after the time in A1. You can format any positive number (integer or not and integer) as a date, as a time or as a date/time. The fractional part will be the time and the integer part will be the date. You can do many numeric things with dates = A2 - A1 will give the number of days between A1 and A2 if A1 is earlier than A2. If those cells have fractional parts then you get the number of days difference and any fractional part is the time difference. If you multiply the difference by 24 you get the number of hours difference and if you multiply that number by 60 you get the number of minutes. let A1 contain 123 let B1 contain 234 C1 = B1 - A1 it will contain 111 Change the format of A1 and B2 to display a date and you can use it as the number of days between those two dates. let A1 contain 123.25 let B1 contain 123.75 C1 = (B1 - A1) * 24 it will contain 12 and can be used as the number of hours between those two date/time values. Basically, integers are dates and fractions are time and you can do numerical things to them. For things like total hours worked you need 1.5 to represent 36 hours and not 1 1/2 days. If you format something as time and add 1 to it you get the same time the next day. To show a number greater than 1 as 24+ hours you format it with "[]" around the h or hh in the time format. Hope this helps. Chrissy. "orlando barreto" wrote in message ... Some advice will be appreciate for the following: Are there any way to calculate in Excel the HOURS and MINUTES elapsed between any time-any day and "other" any time-any day, let's say between 10/23/2003 & 11/23/ 2003 or 10/23/2002 & 11/23/2003. Any explanation will be greatly appreciate Orlando Barreto Mechanioal Engineer |
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