I am trying to change the time in each Date/Time cell so that the time is 5:00:00. So that 05/10/2021 07:00:00 becomes 05/10/2021 05:00:00.
I have tried turning the cell into plain text, splitting it by the decimal and rejoining with the appropriate time, but it breaks my other formulas even though the format looks identical. I have also tried splitting the date and time, then using '''=CONCATENATE(text(A2,"M/D/YYYY")& " " &text($B$2,"H:MM:SS"))''' - the formulas still break.
if this is a valid DateTime cell just go into spreadsheet settings and change the timezone of your sheet to -2
update:
=INDEX(IF(A1:A="",,TEXT(INT(A1:A), "dd/mm/yyyy")&" 05:00:00"))
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We have the string 2022-06-01 11:01:05 ET in Google Sheets and we are looking to compute the difference between this string and =now(). We cannot simply subtract the cells because we cannot subtract a string from a number/date. How can we subtract and get the difference between timestamps (not just dates, precision to the hh:mm:ss would be useful.). The output we are looking for is a simple decimal number representing the time difference, that we can convert into minutes or seconds as needed.
try:
=(NOW()*1)-(1*REGEXEXTRACT(A1, "(.*) "))
then:
=TEXT((NOW()*1)-(1*REGEXEXTRACT(A1, "(.*) ")), "[h]:mm:ss")
See my comment to your original post. But as your post is written, you need to do this for only one cell. So assuming that cell is A2:
=NOW()-REGEXEXTRACT(A2,"(.+)\s\S+$")
... then set the format of that output to Duration.
Understand that since the NOW function is volatile (constantly changing), the output will also constantly be changing. Hopefully, that is what you want and expect.
You mention:
We have the string 2022-06-01 11:01:05 ET in Google Sheets...
It is safer to use:
=NOW()-REGEXEXTRACT(B1, "(.*) ")+(x/24)
(where x=difference in time zones and B1 is the cell containing the sting)
As an example, if your sheet's time zone is "(GMT+00:00) London", x should be adjusted accordingly
WHY?
Both of the answers provided by Erik as well as player0 will work if and only IF you are in the same time zone.
Considering the fact though that you do mention that the time zone in your question is a string (meaning fixed) as well as it is quite common for a Google Sheet to be in a different time zone, it is safer to use the above formula.
Please have a look at these times
In Google Sheets, I need to create a date in the following format:
2016-06-15T12:00-0800/2016-10-16T12:00-0800
(Yesterday's date / today's date + 120 days)
Using =NOW()-1, I get yesterday's date.
Using Format - Date - More - Year(1930)-Month(05)-Day(01)T:Hour(01):00-0800, I get the proper format for the 1st part of the date range (2016-06-15T12:00-0800).
Repeating the same process with =NOW()+120.
Got the 2nd part of the date range (2016-10-16T12:00-0800).
PROBLEM: Trying to =CONCATENATE(A2,"/",B2), results in this:
42901.6965777315/43022.6965777315
...and no matter what I do - change the format, try to use =CONCATENATE(=TEXT(A2),"/",=TEXT(B2)), or other tricks I know, I either get a blank cell, an error message, or an even worse mess.
All I want is to combine 2 date cells into 1, with a slash in between. How can this be accomplished?
Try join instead of concatenate:
=join("/",A1,B1)
Maybe:
=text(now()-1,"yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm")&"-0800/"&text(now()+120,"yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm")&"-0800"
TEXT with only a date as argument returns the serial number corresponding to that date,
First you should confer the result of you formulas that involves NOW to a formatted text by using TEXT with the second argument. Then you could concatenate the result of that.
The above be donde on a single formula but you maybe should start by doing each step on separate cells in order to make it easy to check the result of each part.
I have stored some data entrys in a CSV file in following Format:
Thu Jul 28 08:42:33 GMT+01:00 2016
and need to convert it to just a time stamp (eg. h:m:s). How can I quickly and easily do this?
To convert a text date in a cell to a serial number, you use the DATEVALUE function. Then you copy the formula, select the cells that contain the text dates, and use Paste Special to apply a date format to them. Select a blank cell and verify that its number format is General.
If the size is fixed, then assuming the string is in A1:
=MID(A1,12,8)
The result can then be converted to an actual time value using TIMEVALUE.
Looks like a simple call to a single function would extract the substring you want, since it begins at a specific offset and only runs for eight characters (two hh plus colon plus two mm plus colon plus two ss).
I have huge amounts of raw data that are separated by columns. All is well when i import these to Matlab except for the fact that I just saw that the excel files contains different formats for the dates.
One series (i.e 3 days, 1 row or each hour gets 3x24 rows) have its' dates in the format "mm/dd/yyyy" which neither excel or matlab recognizes as proper dates.
I've tried solving this problem in different ways. First i tried to just highlight the cells and use the function format cells, but this didn't work since excel doesn't see them as 'cells' but rather as 'text'.
Then i tried the Text to columns function which didn't work either (delimited or fixed width).
Im really stuck and would appreciate some help with this.
In Excel:
If cell A1 has a string like mm/dd/yyyy then try this:
=DATE(RIGHT(A1,4), LEFT(A1,2), MID(A1,4,2))
In Matlab:
=datenum(yourDateString, 'mm/dd/yyyy')
Select the desired range to fix and use this script:
Sub bulk_Date_fix()
on error resume next
Set d_ranged = Selection
For Each a In d_ranged
a.Value = Split(a.Value, "/")(0) & "/" & Split(a.Value, "/")(1) & "/" & Split(a.Value, "/")(2)
Next
on error goto 0
End Sub
How it works: The above script loops through all the cells in the selected area and splits out the various attributes of a date based on the "/" symbol.
I examined your file and you will need to go back to the source data to straighten this out. Instead of "opening" the file in Excel, you will need to IMPORT the file. When you do that, the text import wizard will open, and you can then designate the date column as being of the format DMY (or whatever format is being generated by the source).
The problem is that there is a mismatch between the format of the file, and your Windows Regional Short date format. If you look at Row 229, you will see that real dates are present, but out of sequence with the rest.
Excel parses dates being input according to the Windows Regional Short Date settings. If the date doesn't make sense, according to that parsing (e.g. month > 12) , Excel will interpret the date as a string; if the date does make sense, it will be interpreted as a date in accordance with that windows regional date component order, and this will be different from what is intended.
So the first few hundred dates are strings, but at line 229, the date, which is probably meant to be 12 OCT 2014, gets changed to 10 DEC 2014. This will happen in other areas where that value in the 2nd position is 12 or less.
EDIT: I am not certain of the variabilities inherent in using XL on the MAC. In the Windows version of XL, the "text import" feature is on the Data Ribbon / Get External Data Tab:
When you click on that and open a text file, you will see the Text Import Wizard, and when you get to Step 3, you will be able to specify the text format of the data to be imported:
I've been playing with MIT AppInventor and attempted to calculate a duration between two dates.
I take date values from two text fields. Clock.MakeInstant says it's only able to accept dates in MM/DD/YYYY format so I was careful to do that. Still, when I attempt to feed them into MakeInstant it always pops the same message about being able to only accept MM/DD/YYYY hh:mm:ss or MM/DD/YYYY or hh:mm. I printed entered text values before passing them to MakeInstant to confirm that they are not somehow corrupted and they are fine -- each just a date in MM/DD/YYYY format.
I have no idea what else to try. As far as I can tell I followed the instructions to the letter. Any examples on how to pass a date as text to Clock.MakeInstant?
see this screenshot source: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/app-inventor-shared-utilities-repository/3bA4wczU9pU/discussion
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