If you have a time in a decimal format, i.e. an integer and a fraction, e.g. 2.5 hours (2 and a half hours) and you want to convert to a standard time format 02:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes), then you can use a formula based on the TIME function with the following syntax:
TIME(hours,minutes,seconds)
Example:
We have [...]
If you have a standard time, current time for example, and you want to add to it hours, minutes or seconds to get to a new time, then what you need to do is to convert the hours or minutes to a standard time format using the TIME function. After that you can add [...]
If you have a number of time values you want to add together, e.g. total hours worked by an employee in the week, then you can list those hours in a standard time format (hh:mm or hh:mm:ss) and sum them together.
Example 1 : total hours less than 24.
Cells B1, B2, B3 and B4 contains the [...]
This step-by-step article shows you how to calculate the number of months between any two dates.
To calculate the number of months between any two dates, use one of the following methods. Note that both methods use the following information:
• EDate = Earlier Date
• LDate = Later Date
NOTE: If you type LDate or EDate directly into this formula [...]
If you want to get the current date and time in a cell then you can do one of the following:
1. To get the current date only use the TODAY() function.
Syntax
=TODAY()
2. To get the current date and time use the NOW() function.
Syntax
=NOW()
3. To get the current time only use the NOW() function, and then format [...]
A few months ago a user asked this question in Excel Help Forum:
If you have two columns, is it possible to have column B put in the date that data was added to column A?
I have replied to the question in the forum at that time, and I have noticed since then that other users [...]
