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- From: cording@sorokin.anu.edu.au (Dean Cording)
- Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets
- Subject: Re: Excel 4.0 & Time Summing
- Date: 16 Dec 92 06:32:26 GMT
- Organization: Australian National University
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- Brian.Milner@brunel.ac.uk (Brian D Milner) writes:
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- >I am trying to add up a series of times in an Excel 4.0 spreadsheet.
-
- >The times are written thus:
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- > 00:50:55
- > 09:11:13
- > 23:05:59
-
- >i.e. hours:minutes:seconds. Excel recognises that, and adds them
- >up as hours:minutes:seconds; but if the total is greater than (09?)
- >hours, is gives the sum as '0'!
-
- Excel's time format will only handle upto 24 hours before it rolls
- around to 00:00:00 again. Actually it doesn't roll around but adds
- 1 to the date. If you set the number format to dd/mm/yy hh:mm:ss you
- will see what I mean. I have writen a formula that will add up times
- in excess of 24 hours. It does this by converting the hh:mm:ss number
- to a decimal number and displaying it as hh.mm. The formula is quite
- large and messy. I don't have it here right now but if anyone's
- interested I'll post it.
-
-
- Dean Cording
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-