i have hit wall after trying INT, TIMEVALUE and all other date formatting on the dates in CSV file.
I was able to change few dates using INT and then change the date format but few dates (highlighted in yellow) i am not able to convert to date format. Originally it is string, which i tried changing to Number and Date type before applying formulas but still its not getting formatted correctly.
i have tried MID/LEFT etc. to extract part of it but when joining these parts using "" & "" converts to text and converting it to date resulted in long ##### output, did tried excel advance option ticking Use 1904 date system.
Any help in right direction is much appreciated. i have not found any duplicate question similar to my format, closest i found didnt have time stamp so that formula didnt work either.
Take a look at your date format. The first digit is either 1 or 2 characters and you need to take that variation into account. the nice thing is based on your data that the days is always 2 digits. this simplifies things a little.
Lets start with the basics and assume your first string of a date is in A2. Let us start simply by striping out the numbers from the text one segment at at time while being generic about the position and number of character. So in order to pull out the number for the month, use the following formula:
=LEFT(A2,FIND("/",A2)-1)
Find will look for the position of the / character in the string and return its number. in this case it should be 2. This means its a single digit month. So we only need to pull 1 digit. In the general sense 1 less than the position of the /.
The next task will be to pull the digits for the day. We can do that using a similar formula. This time lets use MID instead of left. In order to for MID to work, we need to define the starting point. This time the general case of the start point will be the first character after the first /. The other nice part about this is we know the number of characters to pull will always be 2. As such you can use the following formula to pull the month:
=MID(A2,FIND("/",A2)+1,2)
(note if your day digits were not consistently 2 then you would have to measure the number of characters between the two / characters and replace the 2 in the formula with you calculation)
In order to pull the year the process is basically the same as for the month with some minor tweaks. The resulting formula I am suggesting is:
=MID(A2,FIND("/",A2,4)+1,4)
Now the reason I used 4 as the starting position for the find is to make the formula work for the case where days could be a single digit. It the closest the second / can be to the start.
now that you have all that you need to combine it together to make the date. This is where the DATE formula comes into play. It works in the following format: DATE(Year, Month, Day). So now we simply grab each of the individual formula and build the DATE formula which should wind up looking like the following:
=DATE(MID(A2,FIND("/",A2,4)+1,4),LEFT(A2,FIND("/",A2)-1),MID(A2,FIND("/",A2)+1,2))
if you get a date that is just bunch of number format the cell to display the date in the format of your choosing.
I'm working on an excel 2010 sheet where I mark down the date and time an event happens. The date is in one column, and auto formats to 17-Nov when I would type in 11-17 (I was fine with this). The time is in a separate column.
I am trying to find the average time an event occurred, without regard to the date, so I would use =AVERAGE(C1:C10). However, I only receive a date back (like 17-APR).
I did not format the cells before I began to enter in data, and I would simply type in a 3:27pm event as 1527, and no reformatting would happen.
Now, when I attempt to reformat the column to hhmm, all the numbers entered so far turn to 0000. When I try to edit the 0000, it is formatted as 6/13/1906 12:00:00 AM.
What I want to do is have the time formatted as hhmm and not include a date in the cell, and be able to run formulas on it, such as the average time an even occurred.
Summary:
*Currently time is entered simply as ####. I entered 3:27pm as 1527.
*Trying to reformat the time column results in 0000 in all cells in the column that previously had a ####.
*Modifying the 0000 displays as 6/13/1906 12:00:00 AM
*I want to format the time as hhmm so I can simply type in 2357, and have it display as 2357, but understand I mean 11:57pm, and let me take averages.
*Hell, even being able to enter 1547 and have it auto format to 15:47 or 3:47p would be great.
Thanks for reading my question!
An easy way to apply an autoformat (though Excel won't see it as a true "Time") is to go into Format Cells>Custom> and use ##":"##. This will turn 1245 into 12:45. Mind you, this will be a text string so if you copy it to another cell and then apply a time, it will show as 12:00:00. Excel will also not be able to run formulas on it, but it's a quick and dirty way to make it look pretty.
Another option is to have a formula such as =TIME(LEFT(A1,2),RIGHT(A1,2),) where A1 would be replaced with the cell you are actually referencing. This will convert the number to a time that Excel will recognize as a time allowing you to run other functions on it, but requires another column.
If you are entering the times as 4-digit numbers, you'll need to do a calculation to get the hours and minutes, then use the TIME function to get an actual time:-
=TIME(A1/100,MOD(A1,100),0)
Another way is
=LEFT(A1,2)/24+RIGHT(A1,2)/1440
but then you have to format the result as a time.
Excel sees a number like 1547 as approximately 4 years on from 1st January 1900 if you format it as a date, so it will come out as something like 26/3/1904 in UK format or 3/26/1904 in US-style format.
Note that the time function can only give you values up to 23:59:59 (stored as 0.999988426), but the second method will give you a datetime value with one or more days as the whole number part. This can be useful if you want to do calculations on times spanning more than one day.
The above behaviour is because dates and times are stored as real numbers with the whole number part representing days and the decimal part representing fractions of a day (i.e. times). In spite of misleading information from Microsoft here, dates actually start from 31/12/1899 (written as 0/1/1900) with serial number 0 and increment by 1 per day from then on.
Got input such as in the topic title.
Trying to figure out how to convert this into UK date and time to be used in calculations.
I've looked at some methods on Google such as using text to columns, but I don't think this is what I'm looking for...
Thanks!
Edit: month is always in abbreviated format.
Edit 2: I should mention that I'm in the UK, and it doesn't seem to convert US date automagically.
Edit 3: Data:
Jun 05 2016 08:00:00 to dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss
Assuming that your source date is a string and it is in the cell D10, the first thing you need to do is convert it to an excel date time serial. In the Excel Date Time serial there are a few things to note.
The integer portion of the number represents the number of days since Jan 1 1900 in windows and I think 1904 on mac
The decimal portion of the number represents the time in fraction of a day. 0.5 would represent noon. Valid Excel times for VBA are 00:00 to 23:59:59. 24:00 is not a valid time, though it will work with some excel formulas
So in order to convert your string to an Excel date serial we will need to rip out the components and dump them into the DATE() function. The date function consists of three arguments:
DATE(year,month,day)
Pretty straight forward with the exception that those values need to be numbers. Why dont we start pulling your information going from the largest unit to the smallest unit.
Thankfully your string is of consistent length. You have leading 0 for your single digits so they will occupy the same space as double digits. So this method will work until the year 9999, but I don't think we are too worried about that right now.
In order to pull the year we look at where it is in your string and how long it is. So by simply counting we know it starts in the 8th character position and its 4 characters long. We use this information with the MID() function
=MID(D10,8,4)
In order to pull the month it get a little more complicated since we need to convert it from an abbreviation to a number. There are several ways of doing this. You could go for a long IF statement which would wind up repeating the pull of the month a 11 times. Instead I decided to use the MATCH() function and built an array of month abbreviations inside it. The MATCH() function will return the number/position of what you are searching for in the provided search list. So as long as we enter the months in chronological order, their position will correspond to their numeric values. As such our formula will look like:
MATCH(LEFT(D10,3),{"JAN","FEB","MAR","APR","MAY","JUN","JUL","AUG","SEP","OCT","NOV","DEC"},0)
The LEFT() function was used to pull the month abbreviation from your string. The 0 at the end tell match to look for an exact match. Important to note, this match method is not case sensitive.
Now to get the day we employ the same principals that we did for pulling the year and we wind up with:
=MID(D10,5,2)
We can now substitute each of the formulas for Year Month and Day into the DATE() function and we will get the date portion of the excel date serial. The formula should look like the following:
=DATE(MID(D10,8,4),MATCH(LEFT(D10,3),{"JAN","FEB","MAR","APR","MAY","JUN","JUL","AUG","SEP","OCT","NOV","DEC"},0),MID(D10,5,2))
Now you need to tack on your time portion or figure out the decimal portion. In order to do this I would first recommend trying the TIMEVALUE() function. Since time formats tend to be a lot more standard in format than dates, there is a much higher probability that it will work for you. In order to use TIMEVALUE(), the time portion needs to be ripped from the string. This can easily be done with the RIGHT() function as follows:
=RIGHT(D10,8)
That will give you just the time portion which can then be substituted into the TIMEVALUE() function and looks like:
=TIMEVALUE(RIGHT(D10,8))
If the TIMEVALUE() function does not work for you, then you will need to strip out the hour minutes and seconds and dump their results in to the TIME() function. Do this in the same way you pulled the year and the day for the DATE() function. Just update your character counts. TIME() uses three arguments as follows:
TIME(HOUR,MINUTES,SECONDS)
Now that you have figured out your date portion and your time portion all you need to do is add them together to get all the information into one cell. The resulting formula will look like:
=DATE(MID(D10,8,4),MATCH(LEFT(D10,3),{"JAN","FEB","MAR","APR","MAY","JUN","JUL","AUG","SEP","OCT","NOV","DEC"},0),MID(D10,5,2))+TIMEVALUE(RIGHT(D10,8))
Where ever you windup placing that formula, remember to change the formatting on the cell to a custom date. Enter the cell custom format as in the image below.
If you have a list of date times to convert in a column, simply copy your formula and formatted cell down as far as you need to go.
Proof of Concept
Formulas used
For more information on the functions used in the formulas above, follow the links below:
MATCH
DATE
TIMEVALUE
RIGHT
MID
LEFT
{"JAN","FEB","MAR","APR","MAY","JUN","JUL","AUG","SEP","OCT","NOV","DEC"}
The { } are used to build a custom list or static array.
If you don't want to write a macro in VBA, a cell formula would work if the format is as you specified:
I am assuming the data is in cell B3
=MID(B3,5,2) & "/" & IF(LEFT(B3,3)="Jan","01",IF(LEFT(B3,3)="Feb","02",IF(LEFT(B3,3)="Mar","03",IF(LEFT(B3,3)="Apr","04",IF(LEFT(B3,3)="May","05",IF(LEFT(B3,3)="Jun","06",IF(LEFT(B3,3)="Jul","07",IF(LEFT(B3,3)="Aug","08",IF(LEFT(B3,3)="Sep","09",IF(LEFT(B3,3)="Oct","10",IF(LEFT(B3,3)="Nov","11","12"))))))))))) & "/" & RIGHT(B3,13)
The DATEVALUE function expects a comma between the day and year; the REPLACE function can add that in. The TIMEVALUE function should be able to read that time without modification.
=DATEVALUE(REPLACE(LEFT(A1, 11), 7, 0, ","))+TIMEVALUE(RIGHT(A1, 8))
Note that the original in A1 is left-aligned; this indicates a text value. The converted date/time in B1 is right-aligned; this indicates a true date/time value.
Column B was formatted as dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss. As General it would show as 42526.33333.
I have an emulator in eclipse.
Did i need another things?
Excel stores time internally the same way as date - i.e. 1 equals one full day, namely January 1st, 1900. Thus, one hour is 1/24. Assuming that only the time was entered into the cell (and not a full date with a time), you could therefore use this formula:
=IF(U7>16/24+50/(24*60),U7-(16/24+50/(24*60)),0)
Alternatively, you could use Excel's TIME function, which converts hours, minutes and seconds into an Excel time:
=IF(U7>TIME(16,50,0),U7-TIME(16,50,0),0)
In case your input cell is a full date with a time, you need to either get rid of the date in the input value - or add the date to the comparison - though I'd recommend the former:
=IF(TIME(HOUR(U7),MINUTE(U7),SECOND(U7))>TIME(16,50,0),U7-TIME(16,50,0),0)
Go through the following article, I hope this will help you.
compare time in excel
You should compare time in following way -
U7>TIME(16,50,0) inside the IF condition.
Please make sure that the column U7 which you use as time input, should be in proper Time format.
Thanks.
I have some columns where the date values are in integer format, i.e.14.06736111
for 1:37. I want to get the format into minutes.
I tried using the [m[ format in custom format, and that works on many of the cells, but some of them throw out crazy numbers. For example, for the cell where the time is 1:37 I am getting 20257 instead of 97. It looks like the cells that have wacky values also have a nonsense date string attached (1/14/1900).
I can use find/replace to remove the date string and the the format works again, but that seems inefficient.
Is there a better way around this?
Your 14.06736111 is not a time; it's a date (01/14/1900) with a time (.06736111 of a 24-hour period). I'm guessing that the date portion is incorrect, or you're not actually seeing a date value at all.
To display just the time, your cell first needs to remove the integer part of the date (the part to the left of the decimal point). If your date value is in cell A1 as 14.06736111:
=A1-Int(A1)
#nutsch points out in a comment below that a shorter means of doing this would be
=MOD(A1, 1)
Set the cell formatting to Time:
1:37:00AM
Using =A1-Int(A1) as suggested by Ken White helped a lot, but I was still having problems. Through a bit of trial and error I found that the best way to convert an fractal time value into whole minutes was to use the following formula:
=FLOOR(A1/0.000694, 1)