I have the list of data that showing the Hours and the Minutes that I extract from the system. I need to be extract the hours.
As example below, column B first row, the Hours would be 64 and the minutes would be 46.
But when I used the formula =Hour , its turn up the different value since its actually decimal number.
Cannot use left() , it will give the actual decimal number.
Updated:
We tried the #harun24HR 's but cannot readable the value.
But if you noticed, if i copy and paste the value is different. thats why the search not applicable.
4th Update:
To Solar Mike, I have tried the formula given from the thread the i think the value not readable
It's a time value which Excel stores as calculated value based on 24 hours = 1.
To retrieve the hours only you can use:
=INT(A2*24)
To retrieve the minutes only you can use:
=(A1-(INT(A1*24)/24))*24*60
Your time value is already a number in time format so you just need it to change it to decimal system. Dates and time values are numbers. Even if you see it as 30/09/2019 or 12:00:00, actually, for Excel, both cases are numbers.
First date Excel can recognize properly is 01/01/1900 which integer numeric value is 1. Number 2 would be 02/01/1900 and so on. Actually, today is 44659.
Now, about your data, you posted this screenshoot:
So the value is numeric, not text/string. In Excel, what you see is not always what you have. Probably that column has been formatted using custom mask. My fake data is like this:
The numeric value is 02/01/1900 16:46:36 (or 02/01/1900 4:46:36 PM it depends on your regional settings) but I've applied a custom format like this:
[hh]" hours" mm " minutes"
So what I have is a number but what I see is a text!
We have to work with the number (to be honest, ist's easier to work with numbers), so to extract the total hours, minutes and seconds.
Formula in B1: =INT(A1*24) total hours
Formula in C1: =INT(A1*24*60-B1*60) total minutes
Formula in D1: =A1*24*60*60-B1*60*60-C1*60 total seconds
This should guide you on whatever are you trying to achieve.
From your current sample data you try-
For hour =LEFT(A2,SEARCH(" ",A2)-1)
For minutes =RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(A2," minutes",""),2)
oversimplified i have two columns: Date and Text; I want to check my current amount of vacation days based on the first date in row 2, so i came up with the following formula:
="Available vacation days: "&YEARFRAC(A2;TODAY())*12*(25/12)
I calculate the fraction of the year based on the first date and todays date, multiply it by 12 to get months and multiply it again by the total amount of vacation days in my contract per month. Now i got another formula to collect me all cells in column B containing "Vacation", pretty straight forward:
=COUNTIF(B:B;"Vacation")
Now the interesting part - i got the formula who gives me a boolean if a datetime matches the 24th or 31st of december:
=AND(OR(DAY(A53)=24;DAY(A53)=31);MONTH(A53)=12)
I want to count vacation days happening on a 24th or 31st of december as a half-vacation day (0.5), and otherwise fully (as a 1). Then i want to combine my first statement with this result and subtract the used vacation days. I read about VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP but am unsure if this fits this purpose. I want to avoid having an extra column with my boolean returns and rather have this one cell giving me all the information combined.
Without introducing another column, and using DAY and MONTH
It's nearly impossible, and just unnecessarily so...
Please reconsider this, what will happen if you want to add 4th of July as a holiday?
Your formula =AND(OR(DAY(A53)=24;DAY(A53)=31);MONTH(A53)=12) only works for 1 row at a time. So, we can't ever use it with a list, because you will get the whole list as a result every single time. You can't divide them into smaller lists and join them together, there is no such functionality without VBA.
In the future, do not set arbitrary constraints like "no additional columns", you can hide them if you don't like them. And if you don't need them, remove unnecessary rows like non-vacation rows. They are irrelevant, so why not separate the two.
Just to prove my point, here's the solution you wanted:
Solution
=COUNTIFS(B2:B9;"Vacation") - (COUNT(IFERROR(FILTER(FILTER(FILTER(A2:A9;B2:B9="Vacation");MONTH(FILTER(A2:A9;B2:B9="Vacation"))=12);DAY(FILTER(FILTER(A2:A9;B2:B9="Vacation");MONTH(FILTER(A2:A9;B2:B9="Vacation"))=12))=31);0))+(COUNT(IFERROR(FILTER(FILTER(FILTER(A2:A9;B2:B9="Vacation");MONTH(FILTER(A2:A9;B2:B9="Vacation"))=12);DAY(FILTER(FILTER(A2:A9;B2:B9="Vacation");MONTH(FILTER(A2:A9;B2:B9="Vacation"))=12))=24);0))))*0,5
It works, but it's a pain to read, use and maintain.
A2:A9 refers to the dates column
B2:B9 refers to the text column
So in the future, the last thing you want to do is set arbitrary constraints. Furthermore, why use functions like MONTH and DAY when we can just read the text? That way you could even create a table of holidays to search for instead. That will be no fun task with this setup. (Oh, and if it's because of the year, just strip it away from the text when you want to know only the month and day.
Best of luck!
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.
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 am attempting to get the total hours between two times in a SharePoint 2007 list. Right now I have the formula as...
=INT(([Column2]-[Column1])*24)
...which I have looked up and says that it is the correct formula to do this. But, what I get is a weird date like "2/18/1900 12:00 AM" instead of what it should be: 26.
Another formula I tried was...
=TEXT([Column2]-[Column1],"h")
...but, this will only get the difference in hours and not count the days (if they are more than one apart).
Both of the columns are Date & Time columns. So, what am I doing wrong?
My take is that you set the output format of the calculated column to be Date and Time, while it should be of type number.
In a calculated column, the number of hours between two times is:
=TEXT([Column2]-[Column1],"h")
Providing that the difference is less than 24 hours. Otherwise, you'll need to look at getting the days difference and doing a multi-step calculation involving the number of days between the dates * 24 + the calc above.