In Excel I have been trying to find an easier way to calculate a time
difference where the times cross midnight. Example:
Start time: 23:50:00
End time: 00:15:00
How would you formulate an equation to determine the duration of time or
differnce between the start and end time?
Richard Buttrey - 17 Aug 2006 16:08 GMT
>In Excel I have been trying to find an easier way to calculate a time
>difference where the times cross midnight. Example:
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>How would you formulate an equation to determine the duration of time or
>differnce between the start and end time?
One way which results in hours and decimal of an hour is
=IF((end-start)<0,(end-start)*24+24,(end-start)*24)
If you want to see hours and minutes you'd need to modify it to pick
up the decimal fraction and multiply it by 60.
HTH
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Richard Buttrey
Grappenhall, Cheshire, UK
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Marcelo - 17 Aug 2006 16:11 GMT
Hi,
one way is add 1 in 00:15:00
assuming that 23:50:00 is on A2 and 00:15:00 is on A3
=a3+1-a2
=00:25:00
hth

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regards from Brazil
Thanks in advance for your feedback.
Marcelo
> In Excel I have been trying to find an easier way to calculate a time
> difference where the times cross midnight. Example:
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> How would you formulate an equation to determine the duration of time or
> differnce between the start and end time?
Sloth - 17 Aug 2006 16:46 GMT
=(A2>A3)+A3-A2
1 only needs to be added if A2>A3 otherwise you get 24 extra hours when
times don't go over midnight. You will see the problem when you start
summing the times and if you format as [h]:mm:ss
> Hi,
>
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> > How would you formulate an equation to determine the duration of time or
> > differnce between the start and end time?