Making sense of imported time figure

kreases

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I am trying to get various totals out of data which I have had to copy and paste into Excel from another application, however the hours figure comes out strange if it goes over a day such as

1 15:06:43
or 1 01:00:54

Where the leading digit is number of days then its hh:mm:ss.

I would like to be able to convert this to either hh:mm:ss or seconds so that for instance the above figures would read

39:06:43
or 25:00:54

Any suggested calculation should be able to work if this figure goes over just 1 or 2 days, for example

4 01:00:54 would become 97:00:54

Please note in the pasted information there isn't a colon between the first digit and the hours and when the time is less than a day there isn't a leading seperate digit of zero you just get hh:mm:ss

I would appreciate any help you can give me thanks.

John.
 

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Hello John

Try pointing this formula at eg one of these values in A1 and copy down (assuming these values in the A column):

Code:
=IF(FIND(" ",A1&" ")<LEN(A1),LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1))+TRIM(MID(A1,FIND(" ",A1),255)),A1+0)

and format this column as:

[h]:mm:ss
 
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Hi John

Another option, in B1 (assuming the values in A:A as text):

Code:
=RIGHT(A1,8)+LEFT("0"&A1,LEN("0"&A1)-8)

Format B:B as [hh]:mm:ss

Hope this helps
PGC
Book1
ABCD
11201:00:54289:00:54
2401:00:5497:00:54
3101:00:5425:00:54
401:00:5401:00:54
5
Sheet1
 
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I have tried both those methods as the length of formula is quite different,
Richard your formula works perfectly in all situations however I seem to have a problem with your formula PGC and not sure why but I get the following

17:37:30 17:37:30
03:04:05 ######
00:06:28 ######
00:06:04 ######
00:05:51 0:05:51

I have tried formatting both columns differently but it doesn't make any difference so I will go with Richards option.

Richard I assume the basis of your formula is to had the leading digit (day) to the remaining digits (hh:mm:ss) but what I don't understand is why just adding this to the hh:mm:ss section works out, how does Excel know that for instance the 1 is = to 24 hours or 2 is = to 48hrs etc

Any heads up on this might help in the future, thanks.

Thanks to both of you for helping me out.

John
 
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John

It's all down to the way Excel stores date/time values - it stores them as a decimal number where the whole or integer part represents the number of days and the fractional part represents a portion of a day (ie hours/minutes/seconds). Thus 1 represents 24 hours, 0.5 represents 12:00:00 pm, 0.75 represents 18:00:00 etc.

Doe this explain it satisfactorily for you?
 
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Understood

Richard,

Thanks for that explanation, much appreciated.

I do have another calculation I need not sure if I should ask in another topic but see if you can help.

I now have a list of hh:mm:ss and I want to find the longest time in that list but only if it against a particular source, for example

Source duration
A 01:00:01
B 36:01:00
C 24:10:01
A 02:01:55
A 06:02:03

I want to find the longest duration for source A and would expect to get a result of 06:02:03 (hh:mm:ss)

Hope this makes sense, if you can't help I will put it inder a new subject heading,

Thanks again.

John
 
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John

That's fairly straightforward with an array formula such as what follows (array formulas need to be confirmed with Ctrl+Shift+Enter, following which Excel will surround with curly braces (don't try and entrer these manually yourself)):
Excel Workbook
ABCD
1A01:00:01
2B36:01:00
3C24:10:01
4A02:01:55
5A06:02:03A06:02:03
Sheet3
 
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Thanks

Richard,

Thats terrific, much appreciated, thank you for your time.

Regards,

John
 
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Hi John

I'm glad your problem is solved.

I just wanted to tell you that my formula would only work if the times were imported as text, as I wrote in the post. It seems that for the times less than a day you have a real time in the cell. In this case my formula will not work. Richard's solution is better as it works in any case.

Kind regards
PGC
 
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Thanks

PGC,

Thanks for the follow up, much appreciated.

Regards,

John
 
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