I need to convert the date format DD/MM/YYYY to DD/MM/YY using formulas in Excel. The key thing is that it can't be in "text" format after the formula is done.
I have tried with
= IF( CELL("type", $A2) = "v", $A2, VALUE(DAY(DATEVALUE($A2))&"/"&MONTH(DATEVALUE($A2))&"/"&YEAR(DATEVALUE($A2))-2000))
where cell A2 has the text "15/11/2019". My goal is to convert it into 15/10/19 (Excel DATEVALUE and VALUE functions keeps converting 19 into 2019).
Any help is much appreciated.
An actual date in Excel (not text that looks like a date) is stored as a number.
It is the number of days since 1/1/1900.
What you see is just this number formatted in a user readable way.
To change this custom formatting from DD/MM/YYYY to DD/MM/YY, got to the formatting menu on the "Home" tab:
And select "More Number Formats". Then select "Custom", and enter "dd/mm/yy" in the "Type:" field and click OK:
I have "Microsoft MonthView Control 6.0 (SP4)" component that enters the date to cell "D17" I want my function to compare today date to cells "D17" date and give certain message. So if date in cell "D17" is older than current date it will display "OFFER EXPIRED" message. In cell "D17" I currently have 1.10.2018. I use formula =IF(D17>TODAY();"OFFER EXPIRED";"") but it doesn't work. I have tried different cell Formatting options with no success. Any ideas where the problem can hide?
Please try:
=IF(1*SUBSTITUTE(D17;".";"/")>TODAY();"OFFER EXPIRED";"")
(Seeks to coerce Text 1.10.2018 into Number before making the comparison.)
Assuming that the date you have is in string format & in dd.mm.yyyy format. Use below code for the comparison:
=IF(DATE(
RIGHT(D17,4),
MID(D17,FIND(".",D17,1)+1, (
FIND(".",D17,FIND(".",D17,1)+1)-
FIND(".",D17,1))-1),
LEFT(D17,FIND(".",D17,1))
)<TODAY(),
"OFFER EXPIRED","")
I'm trying to get the current year/month/day military time in a cell. This is exactly what I need in the cell #Date:2017/AUG/14 14:55:08 I know this is super easy to do but I'm just not getting the result that I want. This is what I tried.
="#Date"=date(yyyy,MMM,D, hh:mm)
If you're after VBA:
="#Date:" & Format(now(),"yyyy/MMM/D hh:mm:ss")
If you're after a cell formula:
="#Date:" & TEXT(NOW(),"yyyy/MMM/D hh:mm:ss")
Note: Consider DD instead of D if you want day 1 to read 01 instead of 1
Just enter:
=NOW()
in a cell and custom format as "#Date:"yyyy/mmm/dd hh:mm
I have imported a CSV file with 2 long columns of dates. These dates are in the US format Aug/28/2013 and I want them to be in the standard UK dd/mm/yyyy format.
I have tried formatting the cells as US dates and then converting them to number-only formats, and various other permutations within the Date format box, but with no success.
Can anyone rid me of these awful US dates please?
Another solution without using a formula:
Select the relevant columns
Choose Data → Text to Columns…
Select “Delimited” and click Next
Untick all delimiters and click Next
Select data column format “Date: MDY” and click Finish
The dates should now be converted to UK dates.
The problem is that a US date can parsed by Excel as a UK date when the day is less than 13. When this happens Excel converts it to the localized UK serial (date) number.
So 03/19/2014 is obviously a US date of the 19th of March. However 05/03/2014 is ambiguous so Excel parses it the local date format as the 5th of March, rather than the US 3rd of May. Any formula has to check if Excel has stored the US Date as a UK date. A UK date will be stored in Excel as a number.
=IF(ISNUMBER(A2),DATE(TEXT(A2,"yyyy"),TEXT(A2,"dd"),TEXT(A2,"mm")),DATE(RIGHT(A2,4),LEFT(A2,FIND("/",A2)-1),MID(A2,FIND("/",A2)+1,2)))
(For a US date in cell A2 and PC date is dd/mm/yy).
If ISNUMBER is true, the US date looks like a UK date and Excel has serialized it as a number. So can format the date as text and back to a date again. Note day is passed to the month parameter of the first DATE function to perform the conversion.
If ISNUMBER is false, its stored as a string as Excel doesn't convert a date string with >12 months. So use string functions to split it up for the DATE function.
I'm assuming that the date you received is formatted as text and that simply formatting it as date is not changing anything. You can run the following formula on the date:
=(MID(A1,FIND("/",A1)+1,FIND("/",A1,FIND("/",A1)+1)-FIND("/",A1)-1)&"-"&LEFT(A1,FIND("/",A1)-1)&"-"&RIGHT(A1,4))*1
If you get numbers, you just need to format it as dd/mm/yyyy and it should be good.
I tried some of the other suggestions but none seemed to work for me. In my case I was importing US dates in the form M/d/yyyy hh:mm:ss. If you don't mind using some VBA in your spreadsheet then the following function did the job for me:
Public Function USDate(ds As Variant) As Variant
Dim sp() As String
Dim spt() As String
Dim spt2() As String
If ds = vbNullString Then
USDate = ""
ElseIf IsNumeric(ds) Then
' Convert numeric US dates wrongly interpreted as UK i.e. 1/7/2017 as 7th January 2017
USDate = DateSerial(Year(ds), Day(ds), Month(ds))
Else
sp = Split(ds, "/") ' split the date portion
spt = Split(sp(2), " ") ' split the time from the year
spt2 = Split(spt(1), ":") 'split the time hms
USDate = DateSerial(spt(0), sp(0), sp(1)) + TimeSerial(spt2(0), spt2(1), spt2(2))
End If
End Function
Thanks for https://stackoverflow.com/users/845584/peterx pointing out - you will need to create the function in a VBA code module to use this technique.
Simply use it in a spreadsheet formulae for example =USDate(A2)
Related to this, the below simply formula can be helpful for changing a date from
"MM/DD/YYYY"
into
"DD/MM/YYYY".
=VALUE(TEXT(B2,"mm/dd/yyyy"))
We can get best of both world with this more concise formula:
=IF(ISNUMBER(A2),VALUE(TEXT(A2,"mm/dd/yyyy")),DATE(RIGHT(A2,4),LEFT(A2,FIND("/",A2)-1),MID(A2,FIND("/",A2)+1,2)))
Can't find anything shorter.
There was one more issue for me, as somehow the raw data was supposed to be read as a number, but it did not. Hence, i updated the formula with 1 final case:
=IFERROR(IF(ISNUMBER(A2),VALUE(TEXT(A2,"mm/dd/yyyy")),DATE(RIGHT(A2,4),LEFT(A2,FIND("/",A2)-1),MID(A2,FIND("/",A2)+1,2))),DATE(RIGHT(A2,4),LEFT(A2,FIND("/",A2)-1),MID(A2,FIND("/",A2)+1,1)))
This can be tricky when the dates in mixed format eg. UK and US in the same column. I have found an effective if inelegant solution:
Step1) Select the column containing the dates to be converted;
Step2) Format, Cells, Text;
Step3) Format, Cells, Date, US;
Step4) Data, Text to column, Next, Delimited, Next, delete all delimiters, Next, select format MDY;
Step5) Format, Cells, Date, UK.
Step4 had been suggested elsewhere, but that on it's own didn't do it for me. I am hoping to combine these steps into a macro but no success this far.
I couldn't get the most common answer to work, the process that worked for me was:
For date 10/04/2018 11:49:20, right-click cell and "Format Cells", "Number" tab and select "Custom" Category and then select mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm.
Assuming that you start with a string (and not an internal excel date number that is just formatted as US format - which is an easy fix), can someone tell me why this method doesn't work?
Use the DATEVALUE / TIMEVALUE functions to convert it into an excel internal formatted date number (You might need to MID() the string in case there are extra bits before or after).
Just make sure that your regional settings match the input date format (otherwise DATEVALUE will fail and you will get a #VALUE error).
Then set the cell format to display the way you want it (Custom format e.g. "dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss").
If you also want to change the timezone, you can add on (hours/24) to the internal Excel excel formatted date number.
The above look impressively complex! Why any country should settle on a non-sequential date format escapes me! Say you have a US-format date (mm/dd/yy) in cell A1. To convert this to dd/mm/yy format as in the UK, just do:
=CONCATENATE(MID(A1,4,2),"/",MID(A1,1,2),"/",MID(A1,7,2))
This certainly works in LibreOffice and I hope also in Excel.