Subtracting minutes from a timestamp in msexcel
I am extracting a timestamp from a cell in the format like Tue Nov 06 07:33:00 UTC 2018. Now, using vbscript code or vba code I want to subtract some minutes from the above mentioned timestamp. How can I achieve that?
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asked Nov 13 '18 at 11:05
Ankur PatelAnkur Patel
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I am extracting a timestamp from a cell in the format like Tue Nov 06 07:33:00 UTC 2018. Now, using vbscript code or vba code I want to subtract some minutes from the above mentioned timestamp. How can I achieve that?
excel vba vbscript
asked Nov 13 '18 at 11:05
Ankur PatelAnkur Patel
813
What have you tried so far?
– Nathan_Sav
Nov 13 '18 at 11:15
In Excel, timestamps are written in seconds, so if you want to subtract a number of minutes, multiply this number by 60 and subtract it.
– Dominique
Nov 13 '18 at 13:43
add a comment |
I am extracting a timestamp from a cell in the format like Tue Nov 06 07:33:00 UTC 2018. Now, using vbscript code or vba code I want to subtract some minutes from the above mentioned timestamp. How can I achieve that?
excel vba vbscript
asked Nov 13 '18 at 11:05
Ankur PatelAnkur Patel
813
I am extracting a timestamp from a cell in the format like Tue Nov 06 07:33:00 UTC 2018. Now, using vbscript code or vba code I want to subtract some minutes from the above mentioned timestamp. How can I achieve that?
excel vba vbscript
excel vba vbscript
asked Nov 13 '18 at 11:05
Ankur PatelAnkur Patel
813
asked Nov 13 '18 at 11:05
Ankur PatelAnkur Patel
813
asked Nov 13 '18 at 11:05
Ankur PatelAnkur Patel
813
asked Nov 13 '18 at 11:05
Ankur PatelAnkur Patel
813
asked Nov 13 '18 at 11:05
Ankur PatelAnkur Patel
813
813
What have you tried so far?
– Nathan_Sav
Nov 13 '18 at 11:15
In Excel, timestamps are written in seconds, so if you want to subtract a number of minutes, multiply this number by 60 and subtract it.
– Dominique
Nov 13 '18 at 13:43
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What have you tried so far?
– Nathan_Sav
Nov 13 '18 at 11:15
In Excel, timestamps are written in seconds, so if you want to subtract a number of minutes, multiply this number by 60 and subtract it.
– Dominique
Nov 13 '18 at 13:43
What have you tried so far?
– Nathan_Sav
Nov 13 '18 at 11:15
What have you tried so far?
– Nathan_Sav
Nov 13 '18 at 11:15
In Excel, timestamps are written in seconds, so if you want to subtract a number of minutes, multiply this number by 60 and subtract it.
– Dominique
Nov 13 '18 at 13:43
In Excel, timestamps are written in seconds, so if you want to subtract a number of minutes, multiply this number by 60 and subtract it.
– Dominique
Nov 13 '18 at 13:43
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split(split("Tue Nov 06 07:33:00 UTC 2018",":")(1),":")(0)
Will give you the minutes on their own. You can assign the splits to arrays, then rejoin with the correct minutes using `join
Something like so
Public Function addToTimeStamp(strTimeStamp As String, lngMinutes As Long) As String
Dim a() As String
a = Split(strTimeStamp, " ")
a(3) = DateAdd("n", lngMinutes, a(3))
addToTimeStamp = Join(a, " ")
End Function
answered Nov 13 '18 at 11:16
Nathan_SavNathan_Sav
5,7191618
Thanks Nathan. It worked like a charm for me. :)
– Ankur Patel
Nov 23 '18 at 16:05
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Without going into VBA, you could separate the time stamp from the date, then work on the time stamp and adjust the date accordingly.
Assuming your dates are in the column A and that the timestamp always take the same structure, starting from row number 2
So first you create a column where there is only the time stamp, that is column B:
=MID(A2,FIND("UTC",A2)-9,8)
07:33:00
This first finds the position of "UTC" within the string then extract 8 characters starting from 9 characters to the left (accounting for the space between the time and "UTC").
Already there you can work on the minutes/hours/seconds.
Hours:
=NUMBERVALUE(LEFT(B2,2))
07
Minutes:
=NUMBERVALUE(Mid(B2,4,2))
33
Seconds:
=NUMBERVALUE(Right(B2,2))
00
You can also extract the date part of the time stamp using the same logic. Column C:
=MID(A2,FIND(B2,A2)-11,10)
Tue Nov 06
Finally you can also combine all of that into an Excel date and do your operations directly on the resulting number (This will ensure that you get a new valid date which account for incrementing/decrementing hours/days/months/years, it will also automatically account for leap years.)
Final date, including the time stamp, Column D:
=DATEVALUE(MID(A2,FIND(B2,A2)-3,2)&"-"&MID(A2,FIND(B2,A2)-7,3)&"-"&RIGHT(A2,4))+NUMBERVALUE(LEFT(B2,2))/24+NUMBERVALUE(MID(B2,4,2))/(24*60)+NUMBERVALUE(RIGHT(B2,2))/(24*60*60)
43410.3145833333
On this final number you can simply increase/decrease the number of minutes by adding it directly to it. The unit of this number is "days" so one minute is equal to 1/(24*60) and one hour is 1/24. Example of removing 33 minutes:
=D2 - 33/(24*60)
43410.2916666667
Changing the formatting to [dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm] will then result in:
06/11/2018 07:00:00
answered Nov 13 '18 at 13:18
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split(split("Tue Nov 06 07:33:00 UTC 2018",":")(1),":")(0)
Will give you the minutes on their own. You can assign the splits to arrays, then rejoin with the correct minutes using `join
Something like so
Public Function addToTimeStamp(strTimeStamp As String, lngMinutes As Long) As String
Dim a() As String
a = Split(strTimeStamp, " ")
a(3) = DateAdd("n", lngMinutes, a(3))
addToTimeStamp = Join(a, " ")
End Function
answered Nov 13 '18 at 11:16
Nathan_SavNathan_Sav
5,7191618
Thanks Nathan. It worked like a charm for me. :)
– Ankur Patel
Nov 23 '18 at 16:05
add a comment |
split(split("Tue Nov 06 07:33:00 UTC 2018",":")(1),":")(0)
Will give you the minutes on their own. You can assign the splits to arrays, then rejoin with the correct minutes using `join
Something like so
Public Function addToTimeStamp(strTimeStamp As String, lngMinutes As Long) As String
Dim a() As String
a = Split(strTimeStamp, " ")
a(3) = DateAdd("n", lngMinutes, a(3))
addToTimeStamp = Join(a, " ")
End Function
answered Nov 13 '18 at 11:16
Nathan_SavNathan_Sav
5,7191618
Thanks Nathan. It worked like a charm for me. :)
– Ankur Patel
Nov 23 '18 at 16:05
add a comment |
split(split("Tue Nov 06 07:33:00 UTC 2018",":")(1),":")(0)
Will give you the minutes on their own. You can assign the splits to arrays, then rejoin with the correct minutes using `join
Something like so
Public Function addToTimeStamp(strTimeStamp As String, lngMinutes As Long) As String
Dim a() As String
a = Split(strTimeStamp, " ")
a(3) = DateAdd("n", lngMinutes, a(3))
addToTimeStamp = Join(a, " ")
End Function
answered Nov 13 '18 at 11:16
Nathan_SavNathan_Sav
5,7191618
split(split("Tue Nov 06 07:33:00 UTC 2018",":")(1),":")(0)
Will give you the minutes on their own. You can assign the splits to arrays, then rejoin with the correct minutes using `join
Something like so
Public Function addToTimeStamp(strTimeStamp As String, lngMinutes As Long) As String
Dim a() As String
a = Split(strTimeStamp, " ")
a(3) = DateAdd("n", lngMinutes, a(3))
addToTimeStamp = Join(a, " ")
End Function
answered Nov 13 '18 at 11:16
Nathan_SavNathan_Sav
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edited Nov 13 '18 at 11:22
answered Nov 13 '18 at 11:16
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answered Nov 13 '18 at 11:16
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answered Nov 13 '18 at 11:16
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Thanks Nathan. It worked like a charm for me. :)
– Ankur Patel
Nov 23 '18 at 16:05
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Thanks Nathan. It worked like a charm for me. :)
– Ankur Patel
Nov 23 '18 at 16:05
Thanks Nathan. It worked like a charm for me. :)
– Ankur Patel
Nov 23 '18 at 16:05
Thanks Nathan. It worked like a charm for me. :)
– Ankur Patel
Nov 23 '18 at 16:05
add a comment |
Without going into VBA, you could separate the time stamp from the date, then work on the time stamp and adjust the date accordingly.
Assuming your dates are in the column A and that the timestamp always take the same structure, starting from row number 2
So first you create a column where there is only the time stamp, that is column B:
=MID(A2,FIND("UTC",A2)-9,8)
07:33:00
This first finds the position of "UTC" within the string then extract 8 characters starting from 9 characters to the left (accounting for the space between the time and "UTC").
Already there you can work on the minutes/hours/seconds.
Hours:
=NUMBERVALUE(LEFT(B2,2))
07
Minutes:
=NUMBERVALUE(Mid(B2,4,2))
33
Seconds:
=NUMBERVALUE(Right(B2,2))
00
You can also extract the date part of the time stamp using the same logic. Column C:
=MID(A2,FIND(B2,A2)-11,10)
Tue Nov 06
Finally you can also combine all of that into an Excel date and do your operations directly on the resulting number (This will ensure that you get a new valid date which account for incrementing/decrementing hours/days/months/years, it will also automatically account for leap years.)
Final date, including the time stamp, Column D:
=DATEVALUE(MID(A2,FIND(B2,A2)-3,2)&"-"&MID(A2,FIND(B2,A2)-7,3)&"-"&RIGHT(A2,4))+NUMBERVALUE(LEFT(B2,2))/24+NUMBERVALUE(MID(B2,4,2))/(24*60)+NUMBERVALUE(RIGHT(B2,2))/(24*60*60)
43410.3145833333
On this final number you can simply increase/decrease the number of minutes by adding it directly to it. The unit of this number is "days" so one minute is equal to 1/(24*60) and one hour is 1/24. Example of removing 33 minutes:
=D2 - 33/(24*60)
43410.2916666667
Changing the formatting to [dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm] will then result in:
06/11/2018 07:00:00
answered Nov 13 '18 at 13:18
GTPVGTPV
1464
add a comment |
Without going into VBA, you could separate the time stamp from the date, then work on the time stamp and adjust the date accordingly.
Assuming your dates are in the column A and that the timestamp always take the same structure, starting from row number 2
So first you create a column where there is only the time stamp, that is column B:
=MID(A2,FIND("UTC",A2)-9,8)
07:33:00
This first finds the position of "UTC" within the string then extract 8 characters starting from 9 characters to the left (accounting for the space between the time and "UTC").
Already there you can work on the minutes/hours/seconds.
Hours:
=NUMBERVALUE(LEFT(B2,2))
07
Minutes:
=NUMBERVALUE(Mid(B2,4,2))
33
Seconds:
=NUMBERVALUE(Right(B2,2))
00
You can also extract the date part of the time stamp using the same logic. Column C:
=MID(A2,FIND(B2,A2)-11,10)
Tue Nov 06
Finally you can also combine all of that into an Excel date and do your operations directly on the resulting number (This will ensure that you get a new valid date which account for incrementing/decrementing hours/days/months/years, it will also automatically account for leap years.)
Final date, including the time stamp, Column D:
=DATEVALUE(MID(A2,FIND(B2,A2)-3,2)&"-"&MID(A2,FIND(B2,A2)-7,3)&"-"&RIGHT(A2,4))+NUMBERVALUE(LEFT(B2,2))/24+NUMBERVALUE(MID(B2,4,2))/(24*60)+NUMBERVALUE(RIGHT(B2,2))/(24*60*60)
43410.3145833333
On this final number you can simply increase/decrease the number of minutes by adding it directly to it. The unit of this number is "days" so one minute is equal to 1/(24*60) and one hour is 1/24. Example of removing 33 minutes:
=D2 - 33/(24*60)
43410.2916666667
Changing the formatting to [dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm] will then result in:
06/11/2018 07:00:00
answered Nov 13 '18 at 13:18
GTPVGTPV
1464
add a comment |
Without going into VBA, you could separate the time stamp from the date, then work on the time stamp and adjust the date accordingly.
Assuming your dates are in the column A and that the timestamp always take the same structure, starting from row number 2
So first you create a column where there is only the time stamp, that is column B:
=MID(A2,FIND("UTC",A2)-9,8)
07:33:00
This first finds the position of "UTC" within the string then extract 8 characters starting from 9 characters to the left (accounting for the space between the time and "UTC").
Already there you can work on the minutes/hours/seconds.
Hours:
=NUMBERVALUE(LEFT(B2,2))
07
Minutes:
=NUMBERVALUE(Mid(B2,4,2))
33
Seconds:
=NUMBERVALUE(Right(B2,2))
00
You can also extract the date part of the time stamp using the same logic. Column C:
=MID(A2,FIND(B2,A2)-11,10)
Tue Nov 06
Finally you can also combine all of that into an Excel date and do your operations directly on the resulting number (This will ensure that you get a new valid date which account for incrementing/decrementing hours/days/months/years, it will also automatically account for leap years.)
Final date, including the time stamp, Column D:
=DATEVALUE(MID(A2,FIND(B2,A2)-3,2)&"-"&MID(A2,FIND(B2,A2)-7,3)&"-"&RIGHT(A2,4))+NUMBERVALUE(LEFT(B2,2))/24+NUMBERVALUE(MID(B2,4,2))/(24*60)+NUMBERVALUE(RIGHT(B2,2))/(24*60*60)
43410.3145833333
On this final number you can simply increase/decrease the number of minutes by adding it directly to it. The unit of this number is "days" so one minute is equal to 1/(24*60) and one hour is 1/24. Example of removing 33 minutes:
=D2 - 33/(24*60)
43410.2916666667
Changing the formatting to [dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm] will then result in:
06/11/2018 07:00:00
answered Nov 13 '18 at 13:18
GTPVGTPV
1464
Without going into VBA, you could separate the time stamp from the date, then work on the time stamp and adjust the date accordingly.
Assuming your dates are in the column A and that the timestamp always take the same structure, starting from row number 2
So first you create a column where there is only the time stamp, that is column B:
=MID(A2,FIND("UTC",A2)-9,8)
07:33:00
This first finds the position of "UTC" within the string then extract 8 characters starting from 9 characters to the left (accounting for the space between the time and "UTC").
Already there you can work on the minutes/hours/seconds.
Hours:
=NUMBERVALUE(LEFT(B2,2))
07
Minutes:
=NUMBERVALUE(Mid(B2,4,2))
33
Seconds:
=NUMBERVALUE(Right(B2,2))
00
You can also extract the date part of the time stamp using the same logic. Column C:
=MID(A2,FIND(B2,A2)-11,10)
Tue Nov 06
Finally you can also combine all of that into an Excel date and do your operations directly on the resulting number (This will ensure that you get a new valid date which account for incrementing/decrementing hours/days/months/years, it will also automatically account for leap years.)
Final date, including the time stamp, Column D:
=DATEVALUE(MID(A2,FIND(B2,A2)-3,2)&"-"&MID(A2,FIND(B2,A2)-7,3)&"-"&RIGHT(A2,4))+NUMBERVALUE(LEFT(B2,2))/24+NUMBERVALUE(MID(B2,4,2))/(24*60)+NUMBERVALUE(RIGHT(B2,2))/(24*60*60)
43410.3145833333
On this final number you can simply increase/decrease the number of minutes by adding it directly to it. The unit of this number is "days" so one minute is equal to 1/(24*60) and one hour is 1/24. Example of removing 33 minutes:
=D2 - 33/(24*60)
43410.2916666667
Changing the formatting to [dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm] will then result in:
06/11/2018 07:00:00
answered Nov 13 '18 at 13:18
GTPVGTPV
1464
answered Nov 13 '18 at 13:18
GTPVGTPV
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What have you tried so far?
– Nathan_Sav
Nov 13 '18 at 11:15
In Excel, timestamps are written in seconds, so if you want to subtract a number of minutes, multiply this number by 60 and subtract it.
– Dominique
Nov 13 '18 at 13:43