I was making it to hard. Thanks
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Browse All TopicsUsing the below format how do I subtract two dates with time stamps and the covert to hours. Need to be a formula i guess so i can copy it down
10/12/2006 12:00:00 AM - 10/10/2006 3:11:00 PM = xxhours
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by: QlemoPosted on 2008-05-22 at 05:56:51ID: 21623336
Dates in Excel are in fact floats, with days since 1.1.1900 (?) as integer part and fractal part is the clock time.
If you substract two dates, you will get another float, which you can simply calculate with:
(date1 - date2)*24
gives you the time span in hours.