I have a file from amazon and in that they are providing datetime in UTC format.Below is the example of that :
2020-06-15T23:59:56+00:00
Now I want convert this datetime into PDT format in Excel using formula. Is it possible to do it?
You could use something like below. It works in 3 parts :
Substitute "T" from the value with a space.
Take only left part of value for 19 characters that make up the relevant date and time
Deduct 7 hours using 7/24 from the time as PDT = UTC - 7 hours
=LEFT(SUBSTITUTE(A2,"T"," "),19) - 7/24
Use SUBSTITUTE, and then subtract 7/24 to subtract 7 hours.
=SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"T"," "),"+00:00","")-7/24
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The Format is Date
=INT() didn't work
Just because you format it as a date does not make it so. This is probably a date stored as text not a true date which if you changed to general format would change to a number. You will need to parse the string and put the "date" in a format that excel can understand then take the INT to get just the date:
=INT(--REPLACE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,",",""),FIND("{{{",SUBSTITUTE(A1," ","{{{",2)),0,","))
One note, this method only works if the month value like Feb is in the local language. If one has a local language of Portuguese Feb is not the correct abbreviation, and as such will fail.
Use the builtin date functions Day() Month() Year() Hour() Minute().
Long Date
Fri Aug 07, 2020 05:12 UTC
Day | Date | Time |
Friday | 07:10:2020 | 05:12 |
to get the date from that string use:
=--MID(A1,5,LEN(A1)-8)
Put that in three cells. Then format the cells:
day cell: dddd
Date Cell: dd\:mm\:yyyy
Time Cell: HH:MM
You could use the following to put the text string into just a date time format that excel understands:
=DATEVALUE(RIGHT(LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-4),LEN(A1)-8))
The above will not be affected by number of digits for year, day or hour; only that the bit it is using has 4 chars at the front (Fri and space) and 4 at the end (space and UTC).
Since you have two digits for both day and hour, this could be simplified with using MID, like:
=DATEVALUE(MID(A1,5,LEN(A1)-8))
To extract a date from a text string representing a date, you can use the DATE function e.g. =DATE([year],[month],[day]).
To get those parts from a text string you can use =MID([input text string], [start position], [number of characters]). So you could do MID for each component (year, month etc) needed, then put the results through the DATE function.
Date formats in Excel are distinguished between what is stored and what is displayed.
What is stored depends on your excel settings.
What is displayed depends on your excel settings as well as your "regional and language options" or equivalent settings in your computer's operating system.
To change what is displayed, set a custom format (ctrl-1, first tab, last list item) to something like Ddd Mmm dd, yyyy hh:mm.
Otherwise regional and language options, and program settings, can override how the date is shown (which can be important if you are sharing workbooks, especially with unknown future users).
Is the input UTC or do you need to convert?
If you need to convert, do you have a fixed offset in hours? If so, it is a simple formula. For example: =A1+3/24 for UTC-3 hours.
To change what is stored, first understand whether the number stored represents the number of days since 1 Jan 1901, or 1 Jan 1904, or some other convention (such as 1 Jan 1970).
Then decide if you want to store it as a date or a text string.
Then decide if you want to store it as 3 copies of the same value (each displaying a different aspect: day, date, time) or if you just want each value to be its own part not the whole date "hidden" and the display set.
To store it as a text string, use =TEXT(A1,"Dddd"), =TEXT(A1,"MM:DD:YYYY") and =TEXT(A1,"HH:MM").
Watch out for 24 or 12 hour time: the difference is whether "AM/PM" is appended. Your input is likely 24h time but check another example from the dataset to be sure.
I have to convert utc time to ist time in my excel the the time format is 10:00:00 utc this has to converted in IST timing.
Please suggested
There are no inbuilt functions that identify/convert the timezones. We can extend the capabilities of Excel Time() function to solve this use case.
=A1+Time(5,30,0)
For IST, you will have to add 5 hours and 30 minutes. Similarly, you can convert to any timezone by adding/subtracting the time difference.
The three inputs given to the Time() are hours,minutes and seconds.
This function returns the timestamp in a serial number format. Excel will interpret this number and show the timestamp in a readable format.
How can I convert this string:
Tue Jan 24 14:59:20 BRT 2017.
Into a date that includes day month year and time and timezone, using Excel functions only.
I have several cells with dates following this format. I have to compute the difference between some of these dates in minutes. I believe that the first step is converting the date to a String to a real date information. Then, I will be able to: order the dates and compute the time between consecutive dates.
Use this formula:
=--(SUBSTITUTE(MID(A1,5,LEN(A1)),"BRT",""))
Then format it to the format you want.
It will now work in math equations.
I've got a date string from my database which has this format:
Tue Nov 12 2013 18:14:46 GMT+0100 (CET)
I want to convert it into a ISOString and im currently doing that with:
var iso = new Date(val.text_date).toISOString();
However for some reason the output time is moved 1 hour backwards?
This is the output im getting:
2013-11-12T17:14:46.000Z
How can i avoid this?
Short answer: the time is converted into UTC, and your original time was displayed in UTC+1, hence the one hour difference.
The Date.toISOString() method converts the date into a string in the ISO 8601 format. Note that the returned date in your example ends by a Z: 2013-11-12T17:14:46.000Z. As per the Mozilla documentation and Wikipedia:
If the time is in UTC, add a Z directly after the time without a
space. Z is the zone designator for the zero UTC offset