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Calculate percentage of time period
Cell A1 shows prison time for a certain crime (eg. 8 years).
How would cell B1 show 1/5 (20%) of that in time format (ie, not 1,6; but 1 "year" 7 "months"). I suppose I want a duodecimal system instead of a decimal one... Thanks in advance. |
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Calculate percentage of time period
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http://www.cpearson.com/excel/datedif.htm -- Kind regards, Niek Otten "Ricardo Monteiro :^)" wrote in message ... Cell A1 shows prison time for a certain crime (eg. 8 years). How would cell B1 show 1/5 (20%) of that in time format (ie, not 1,6; but 1 "year" 7 "months"). I suppose I want a duodecimal system instead of a decimal one... Thanks in advance. |
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Calculate percentage of time period
Sorry, I'm getting no results. The formulas you indicated start with a date
and I'm working with "time quantities", like 8 years, 20 years, etc., which will be greater or lesser in some percentage. Is what Im saying understandable? "Niek Otten" escreveu: See http://www.cpearson.com/excel/datedif.htm -- Kind regards, Niek Otten "Ricardo Monteiro :^)" wrote in message ... Cell A1 shows prison time for a certain crime (eg. 8 years). How would cell B1 show 1/5 (20%) of that in time format (ie, not 1,6; but 1 "year" 7 "months"). I suppose I want a duodecimal system instead of a decimal one... Thanks in advance. |
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Calculate percentage of time period
Take 1-1-1900 as a starting point. That is represented in Excel as the
number 1. So Jan 2 1900 is number 2. etc. Small error: Excel treats 1900 as a leap year. Forget that; hardly any effect on your calculations. So 8 years would be 1-1-1908, the number 2923. 80% of that would be May 26 1906; the number 2338.4 If you want to express that in years, months and days, look he http://www.cpearson.com/excel/datedif.htm -- Kind regards, Niek Otten "Ricardo Monteiro :^)" wrote in message ... Sorry, I'm getting no results. The formulas you indicated start with a date and I'm working with "time quantities", like 8 years, 20 years, etc., which will be greater or lesser in some percentage. Is what I'm saying understandable? "Niek Otten" escreveu: See http://www.cpearson.com/excel/datedif.htm -- Kind regards, Niek Otten "Ricardo Monteiro :^)" wrote in message ... Cell A1 shows prison time for a certain crime (eg. 8 years). How would cell B1 show 1/5 (20%) of that in time format (ie, not 1,6; but 1 "year" 7 "months"). I suppose I want a duodecimal system instead of a decimal one... Thanks in advance. |
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Calculate percentage of time period
I'm afraid it's a dead end. Even the simplest DATEDIF formulas give an error.
Thanks anyway. "Niek Otten" escreveu: Take 1-1-1900 as a starting point. That is represented in Excel as the number 1. So Jan 2 1900 is number 2. etc. Small error: Excel treats 1900 as a leap year. Forget that; hardly any effect on your calculations. So 8 years would be 1-1-1908, the number 2923. 80% of that would be May 26 1906; the number 2338.4 If you want to express that in years, months and days, look he http://www.cpearson.com/excel/datedif.htm -- Kind regards, Niek Otten "Ricardo Monteiro :^)" wrote in message ... Sorry, I'm getting no results. The formulas you indicated start with a date and I'm working with "time quantities", like 8 years, 20 years, etc., which will be greater or lesser in some percentage. Is what I'm saying understandable? "Niek Otten" escreveu: See http://www.cpearson.com/excel/datedif.htm -- Kind regards, Niek Otten "Ricardo Monteiro :^)" wrote in message ... Cell A1 shows prison time for a certain crime (eg. 8 years). How would cell B1 show 1/5 (20%) of that in time format (ie, not 1,6; but 1 "year" 7 "months"). I suppose I want a duodecimal system instead of a decimal one... Thanks in advance. |
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