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The tutorial demonstrates different ways to convert time to decimal in Excel. You will find a variety of formulas to change time to hours, minutes or seconds as well as convert text to time and vice versa. Continue reading →

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  1. Hello

    I would like to calculate the lateness

    Time in should be 830 = 8:30am ( I use =TIME(IF(LEN(A1)=2,0,LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),RIGHT(A1,2),0) , this formula provided by you )
    Actual in 903 = 9:03am
    How to prepare formula for lateness in minutes ? and show in minutes ?

    1. Hi!
      Calculate the time using this formula in two cells and subtract time. Or subtract in one formula

      =TIME(IF(LEN(A2)=2,0,LEFT(A2,LEN(A2)-2)),RIGHT(A2,2),0) - TIME(IF(LEN(A1)=2,0,LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),RIGHT(A1,2),0)

  2. I have a spreadsheet that we use and the "time" is listed as a custom "time" using the format 00":"00, which would show 1:30 Pm as 13:30

    I need to convert that "time" to an actual time string for 24 hour clock using an excel formula but I cannot figure it out. Can you assist??

  3. hi,

    i tried using 'To convert the time to decimal, multiply it by 24' but it didn't work, is there another method ?

    thanks

  4. Hi,

    Is there any formula in Excel which it could directly convert day/hour/minute display into total minutes?

    Example: 1d 20h = 2640 mins

    Thanks!

  5. Good evening,
    Maybe you can help me out, it would be so great. And I'm sorry if you've already directly answered this question. I couldn't find it. I work on a 24 hour schedule and need to figure out to track my hours. For example, I come in at 1305 and leave at 1535. I am looking for a formula that will enter the time I worked in decimal hours so equaling 2.50 hours, not in total time (2:30) . I can compute it by hand of course, but who wants to do that? Haha thank you very much for your help!

  6. Hello Sir,

    I would like you to help me to sort out this small issue which I’m unable to do here is my problem

    Example
    4534HRS - 2449SEC (I need total hours here)
    It do repeats daily like initial and final

    4530HRS - 2343SEC 4533HRS - 975SEC
    4533HRS - 975SEC 4534HRS - 2449SEC

    Kindly help me to fix this issue.Thanks in advance

  7. I am trying to convert time on duty as follows in one cell to a number of hours in another
    8:00-16:00 - is that possible?
    Thank you
    Grainne

  8. Hi,

    I am trying to convert 3.50 to show 3hours and 50 minutes in time format.
    Working out new hours for a store allocated for a service, the current hours are formatted to a decimal place for 3hrs 50 minutes. Whereas the way I have calculated it was 4hr 15 minutes in the H:MM format. How can I get this to translate the same for the 3.50, as I need to find the variation in time format.

    For example: old hours 3hr 50 mins, new hours 4hr 15mins = an uplift of 25minutes. I have tried to convert the 3.50 to the H:MM format is just gives me 12pm or 84:00. Which is wrong.

    New Hours Current hours
    4:15 3.50

      1. I just get the value error.

  9. We bill by hours and tenths so I need a formula to convert the result to hours and tenths by set minute increments as follows:
    • 1-6 = 0.1
    • 7-12 = 0.2
    • 13-18 = 0.3
    • 19-24 = 0.4
    • 25-30 = 0.5
    • 31-36 = 0.6
    • 37-42 = 0.7
    • 43-48 = 0.8
    • 49-54 = 0.9
    • 55-60 = 1.0
    2:34 should output 2.6; 1Hr 5 minutes = 1.1; 2 Hrs 15 minutes = 2.3; 3 hrs 45 minutes = 3.8
    Is there a formula that will auto calculate the end result to hours and tenths? Up until now I have done that field manually...

  10. Hi i want to calculate time worked on excel to be converted into hours worked. but time is filled in one cell only eg 12:45-13:00 and the next cell answers .25 hours worked ?

    Can you assist?

  11. How do I convert Actual elapsed time "5311" to 1 Hour 28 Minutes using a formula

    1. Hi!
      Sorry, it's not quite clear what you are trying to achieve.
      Why is “5311” equal to 1 Hour 28 Minutes?

  12. I have the following in a spread sheet and am wondering how I go about setting up a formula to learn the difference between the cells. It is a HUGE data sheet with almost 20k entries. The day as just a number and not a full date is throwing me off.

    Day Hour:Min:Sec

    29 18:25:26 29 18:39:12

    1. The data points should have looked like this
      29 18:25:26
      29 18:39:12

  13. How do I go from 0800-1200 to 8:00am-12:00pm In One cell

  14. I always search here when I stuck in any excel issue and I have never been disappointed. Keep up the good work.

  15. Hi, I have a dataset with time being in the General number format. I know I can manually select the cell to be formatted in time, but don't want to do it manually for all the rows. Can someone tell me how the conversion works? Thanks

    For example:
    44653.8395833333 is equivalent to 4/2/2022 8:09:00 PM

  16. Hello, I have an excel sheet with the time in format "11 Days 2 Hours 58 Min 0 Sec" I want to convert this into either a numeric format or just into minutes. What formula could I use to accomplish this?

  17. Good morning. I am trying to count the presence of specific digits *within* a column of time values. For example, how many minutes in a column of times end in the character 0? I can't find that anywhere online, and experimenting with COUNT, COUNTIF and COUNTIFS gives me obviously bad answers. Please help?

      1. Thank you. I think we're a lot closer to success, but I'm getting a #VALUE! error with that.

        I used TEXT function to convert the time column to a column of pure text that looks like it should, basically 1746 rows of values like this...

        18:01
        18:48
        20:15
        20:45
        21:35
        21:59
        22:10
        22:30
        22:59
        23:32
        05:30

        That worked. Then I pasted your formula, modified for all the row numbers in column E containing the data...

        =SUM(--(RIGHT(TEXT(e3:e1748,"hh:mm"),1)="0"))

        ...and got the #VALUE! error. If you can help, I'd hugely appreciate!

        1. Hi!
          Unfortunately, I was unable to reproduce your issue. The formula is designed to work with time values, but it can also work with times written as text. With the data you provided, it also works correctly.

  18. Dear Sir,
    I have to compare two time sets and check which of them appeared earlier.
    so using the delta between TIME A and TIME B:
    DELTA = TIME A - TIME B

    if Delta is >0, than no problem, i will get the time difference and can be transformed to Text, etc. in order draw an average.
    BUt, if Delta is <0, i have a problem because (TIME*24) is not working if the Time is a negative number.

    I hope my explanation is clear.
    thank you in advance,
    regards,

  19. If I need to have the clock in times and clock out times to be converted to decimal values that consist of 0-4 minutes = 0 , 4-9 =.1, minutes, can the formula be set up to do the conversions for me?

    1. Hi!
      Have you tried the ways described in this blog post? If they don’t work for you, then please describe your task in detail, I’ll try to suggest a solution.

  20. Hello,

    I was wondering how to translate a time written as a whole number to a time value. For example, the values I have on my spreadsheet are values listed as "543" for 5:43 AM and "1350" for 1:50 PM. I also have values that are "50" for 12:50 AM. Can you please help me translate these values into a time value?

    Thank you

    1. Hello!
      To create a time value, use the TIME function.

      =TIME(IF(LEN(A1)=2,0,LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-2)),RIGHT(A1,2),0)

      I hope it’ll be helpful.

  21. Hello,

    I am struggling with something that might be simple so I apologize in advance if it is.

    I'll give an example:
    it takes 00h 00min 03sec to bake a cookie
    I want to know how much time it will take to bake 500k cookies.
    so I want excel to multiply 00h 00min 03sec with 500k
    The result should be same format 00h 00min 03sec. I also need to be able to convert the hours in days if needed.

    Thank you in advance for your help
    Jamie

  22. Hello, I am working as a logistics coordinator and i have 2 questions:

    1) If i have a driver who finishes driving at 18:00(F7) and starts next day at 06:00(E8) it means he has 12hrs of rest time. I used formula =24-F7+E8. But if on sunday he doesnt drive at all. For example finishes saturday at 14:00 but starts only monday at 06:00. What formula could i use to automatically add 24 if there is a blank cell?

    2) Is it possible to use format not ''12:45'' but ''12h 45min'' when it counts the rest time?

    Thank you

  23. 10 Day(s) 22 Hr(s) 34 Min(s)

    How to convert this into days.

      1. Hi Sir , Thanks for the response.

        i have tried that the same but not getting the exact days.

        10 Day(s) 22 Hr(s) 34 Min(s) - I want to convert this in days only , like 10days 22 hrs should come as 11 days. seeking for your help on this.
        Thank You

  24. Hi

    Wanting to do 'end time' - 'start time' in order to get travel time.

    End time and start time are in 24hr clock format.

    For example, end time is 1100 and start time is 1000. Thus 60 minutes. But I need a formula for this.

    No AM / PM or : used.

    Please help! I've read the above.

    1. Nevermind. I figured it out. Used LEN and RIGHT functions to add : to all values then I used the formula you presented above.

  25. How to convert this data (1 Day 1 Hour 10 Minutes) into decimal

  26. Hello,
    Wondering how to do a column conversion of hours into days. I have 728 rows in the column

  27. Hello,

    Is there a way to have excel automatically convert the time in hours to minutes, AND display the result in the same cell in which the data is input?

    Thanks

  28. Hi,
    Is there a way to convert a length of time in text string formatted like the following to a numerical number such as total days, so I may determine the average length of that time for hundreds of entries.

    10 Years 8 Months 26 Days
    1 Years 4 Months 23 Days
    5 Years 11 Months 5 Days
    0 Years 6 Months 12 Days

    Thank you for any assistance!

      1. I think I have the same issue, but with hours. Our report gives us the cell with: 7 hours 10 minutes 4 seconds, but we need it in the format hh:mm:ss. Cand we transform that?
        Thank you

  29. Hello!

    I could use your expertise, please!

    I'm trying to go from:-

    1 hour 18 mins

    to

    78 minutes

    Is that possible?

    Thanks
    Stephanie

    1. Hello!
      I hope you have studied the recommendations in the tutorial above. It contains answers to your question

      =HOUR(A1)*70+MINUTE(A1)

  30. Hey, I'm trying to convert 61:20:00 to decimal, but the formulas I'm finding online are not working because it's over 24 hours. Any tips on how to get it to work? I'm using Google Sheets.

      1. Awesome! Found the solution in the first link. Thanks so much.

  31. i have looked in the posts and can not get the following to work out. in column a i have "start time", b is "end time", c is "duration"and in column d i need it to be in minutes. ie - (start) 11:08 AM, (end) 3:20 PM, (duration) 4:12 - but can not get the results in minutes. Which formula do i need to convert duration to minutes?
    my formula for duration is b3-a3 (formula is hh:mm

    1. Hi!
      I hope you have studied the recommendations in the tutorial above. Pay attention to the following paragraph of the article above - How to convert time to minutes in Excel

  32. Hi,

    I've received an excel sheet with the format of '# days # hours # mins' per cell in one column. Some cells have '# hours # mins' and others have just '# mins', all in the same column. I'm really stuck on how to convert all into mins without calculating each cell individually. Is there a formula I can apply to update this? Would really appeciate any direction!

    1. Hello!
      If I understand your task correctly, the following formula should work for you:

      =IFERROR(--LEFT(A1,SEARCH("days",A1)-1),0)*1440+ IFERROR(--MID(A1,SEARCH("hours",A1)-3,3),0)*70+ IFERROR(--MID(A1,SEARCH("mins",A1)-3,3),0)

      I hope my advice will help you solve your task.

      1. Hello Alexander, just wanted to say the above helped me so much!!! I searched many forums and articles and you were the only one that had the answer. Thank you

      2. Hi Alexander,

        Thank you so much - it's working, I only need to add a '0' before the data that reads as '2 hours 30 mins' etc, so it's '02 hours 30 mins', otherwise it won't work on those cells. But this is wonderful, thank you! so much faster than what I was working on before!

        1. Hi Amy, is there a formula that could fix this? Running into the same issue

  33. Hi,

    I need to show whether the time elapsed between 2 dates is within the required time frame.
    I have generated the different between the 2 dates using:
    =INT(W4-C4)&" days "&TEXT(W4-C4,"h"" hrs ""m"" mins """)

    And then want to use a simple IF formula to determine if it's within the time frames:
    =IF(Y4>K4, "No", "Yes")
    where
    Y4 is the cell with the first formula
    and K4 is either 0 02:00, 1 00:00 or 5 00:00 (in custom format dd hh:mm)
    This seems to work fine for the 2 hours and 1 day option but "Yes" is always return for the 5 day option.

    I've also tried this where the first formula is a simple =W4-C4 and i have the same issue.

    Can you help please?

    1. Hello!
      The formula in cell Y4 returns text. Therefore, you cannot compare text value with > or < .
      In cell Y4, enter the time in the time format. For example, 2 days is 48:00:00.
      Remember that date and time in Excel are numbers.
      Try this formula

      =IF((W4-C4) > K4, “No”, “Yes”)

      I hope my advice will help you solve your task.

  34. Hi, I'm having a classic problem with a graph being messed up because I have midnight time in my data.
    I solved this once year's ago, but have since forgotten and can't find the answer. Was it something to do with writing that midnight time as decimal number?

  35. Hi,

    I was wondering if anybody can help me with this:

    In an Excel sheet, I have accumulated deducted minutes in cell D1 displayed like this:

    146:50 (146 hrs & 50 minutes)

    cell formatted as: [h]:mm

    I want to display deducted time in 3 separate cells like this:

    H10 G10 F10
    18 2 50
    (days) (hrs.) (min.)

    ** each 8 hours = 1 day deduction

    Thanks in advance,
    Jaafar

    1. Hello!
      To get working days, hours and minutes, use these 3 formulas:

      =INT(D1*24/8)
      =INT(MOD(D1*24,8))
      =(D1*24-INT(D1*24))*60

      Hope this is what you need.

      1. Hi,

        This is what I needed. Problem solved.

        Many many thanks, Alexander.

  36. Hi Hi!

    Would you please assist me on a formula / function that can convert the following:
    03Hrs15Mins06Secs to just the numbers eg. 03:15:06
    34Mins04Secs to eg. 00:34:04

    thank you so much!

    1. Hello!
      Use substring functions in Excel to extract text from cell:

      =TIMEVALUE(IFERROR(MID(A1,SEARCH("Hr",A1,1)-2,2),"00") &":"&IFERROR(MID(A1,SEARCH("Min",A1,1)-2,2),"00") &":"&IFERROR(MID(A1,SEARCH("Sec",A1,1)-2,2),"00"))

      This should solve your task.

  37. Hi & thanks for your most excellent site, it has come in handy for me so many times!

    I have a problem where I'm trying to calculate the difference between two datetimes like this

    Start: 29/Nov/21 11:52 AM
    End: 1/Dec/21 5:38 PM

    Excel nicely converts the above when pasting in to the cells A2 & B2 as follows:

    A2: 29/11/2021 11:52
    B2: 01/12/2021 17:38

    C2: =B2-A2 returns the difference, expressed by Excel as: 02/01/1900 05:46

    D2: =int(C2) returns the days, expressed by Execl as: 2 (format cell to number)

    E2: =MOD(B2-A2,1) gives me just the time, expressed by Execl as: 05:46:00

    So, I can use the above to deterrmine days & hours. If I use 8 hours as a working day, 2 days equate to 16 hours, plus the 5:46, would equate to 21:46 hours:minutes.

    1. I'm wondering if there's a better way than the above?

    2. My second problem comes from having to account for weekends (non-working times).

    I have no idea how to do this. I suspect I'd have to use a calendar?

    Would really appreciate your thoughts.

    Many thanks,

    Derrick

    1. Hello!
      Try this formula in cell C2:

      =B2-A2-NETWORKDAYS.INTL(A2,B2,"1111100")

      The NETWORKDAYS.INTL function counts the number of weekends. In this formula, these are Saturday and Sunday.
      I hope I answered your question. If you have any other questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.

  38. Hi I need to convert the following:

    The original data is 03 Hrs 11 Mins 00 Secs and i need it is look like this 3.11

    I hope you can help me!

    Thanks so much!

      1. Hi! thank you, but i am still not getting the desired outcome.

        Please assist.

        1. Hi!
          I’m not sure I got you right since the description you provided is not entirely clear. However, I’ll try to guess and offer you the following formula:

          =TRIM(LEFT(A1,SEARCH("Hrs",A1)-1))&"."&TRIM(MID(A1,SEARCH("Mins",A1)-3,2))

          If this is not what you wanted, please describe the problem in more detail.

  39. Good day Alexander Trifuntov

    I am trying to convert 30d21h45m into hours on excel using a formula, could you please help.

  40. Looking to average out two columns of numbers based on hours and minutes to find the mean time. Looking for
    whole hour and minute total. Help would be appreciated.

    Count Average Time Total Time
    3 0.479166667 34:30:00 (34 hours, 30 min, 0 sec) [H]:MM:SS turns into 1/1/1900 10:30:00AM
    3 8:16:20 24:49:00

  41. hi. i have a problem. i want to convert 176hrs to 160hrs. the formula for 176hrs is 1/7/1900 8:00. can you please help me convert it to 160 hrs? i really need the solution asap. really appreciate it. thanks

  42. How to convert 300 minutes to 3:20:00? HH:MM:SS

    1. Hi!
      Excel cannot perform incorrect calculations. 300 minutes is 5 hours.
      I recommend reading the first paragraph of the article above.

  43. How do I convert 44,694:30 hours to 44,694.5? I can't find formula here.

    44,694 hours and 30 minutes to convert in decimal.

      1. FYI, make sure the cell yur formula is in is formatted as a number no general. i've seen this cause issues.

  44. Is there a potential solution for correcting the formatting. When Pasting time values from different systems they will show the minuets as hours and others will be correct. This is causing issues with my data tables.

  45. I have a track result in a form of 2:04.66 (=2 minutes, 4 seconds, 660 milliseconds). What is the formula to convert the original value to seconds, i.e. 124,66?

    1. Hi!
      The answer to your question is in the first paragraph of the article above. Please read it carefully.
      Multiply the time by 86400.

  46. i have 400.5 min and to convert it into Hr Min Sec

  47. how do i convert this (07-09-2021 21:00 ) into this (21:00 - 22:00)

  48. Hi
    Similar to Robert says:
    February 6, 2021 at 11:37 am
    Can I please have 1 days 4 hours 21 mins converted to 28.21 in Excel

    I am importing travel time from google maps such as above so my cell contains let's say
    16 hours 20 mins
    Id like this to be 16.33 so I can charge it out multiplied by an hourly rate.
    Love your help with this. (I'm actually using MS Access) if that makes it easier or harder?
    Poida

      1. I still can't get it, I can't see it in the first paragraph when it is all in just one cell
        17 hours 59 mins
        Thank you

        1. Hi!
          I am assuming that there is a text written in your cell and not the time. To convert this text to time, use the formula

          =--SUBSTITUTE(TRIM(CONCAT(IF(ISNUMBER(--MID(D1,ROW($1:$94),1)),MID(D1,ROW($1:$94),1)," ")))," ",":")

          1. Thank you so much for your replies, I think you should go in my favourites.
            That worked a treat, I just had to add the x24 to the end to get 17.98333 hours.

            I'd still be at Uni trying to put that equation together, and I'm over 50.

            Cheers Poida

  49. Hi there,

    How can I convert 12:00:00 AM to 00:00:00 and 12:00:00 PM to 12:00:00 in the same formula including both AM/PM, if I need to convert time to AM or PM accordingly?

    I want to convert,
    12:39:46 AM in A2 to 00:39:46.
    12:04:14 PM in B2 to 12:04:14.

    2. you can have formatted it into 13:00:00 instead

  50. I would like to convert 400 minutes to hours and minutes.... but I'd like to time displayed as 6 40 (where the 40 minutes are display using superscript.)

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