Excel Time Calculations

I had an email from Steve a little while ago asking how he could display the number of elapsed days, hours and minutes in one cell as d h:mm, like this in C5 below: Notes: 1. my dates are dd/mm/yyyy. 2. In this tutorial I am assuming you're familiar with how Excel uses serial numbers …

The past few weeks I have had endless questions about time calculations in Excel. So this week I thought I would share a few with you. First let’s quickly understand how Excel stores dates and time. Date and Time 101 Excel stores dates and time as serial numbers. When you format the serial number as …

The Excel TIME function combines separate hour, minute and second values and converts them into a time serial number. If the cell format was General before the formula is entered, the result is formatted as a date. Syntax: =TIME(hour, minute, second) hour: A number from 0 (zero) to 32767 representing the hour. Any value greater …

Calculating time in Excel can be very frustrating, especially when all you want to do is sum a column of times to get the total, but for some reason you end up with a random number like in the example below. Let me explain what’s going on and how to calculate time in Excel. Since …