Convert days in decimal to days:hours:minutes

I have a number coming otu in decimal form representing days

..25, .5, 1.25 1.5, 100.5, 368.75, it can be anything up to about 3 years.

I need to convert to Dayss:Hrs:minutes ddd:hh:mm

so 1.5 would be 1:12:00
1.25 would be 1:06:00
368.75 would be 368:18:00

If something is 29 days, 23 hrs, & 50 minutes that is important to my world

Hey thanks for your time

Todd

Hi Todd,

Excel stores dates and times as numbers (1 equals one day) too.
Just format Custom as d:hh:mm and you get waht you require

--
Kind regards,

Niek Otten

"Todd F." <ToddF@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:139468A0-89F2-41D3-A799-17DEC32EA558@microsoft.com...
>I have a number coming otu in decimal form representing days
>
> .25, .5, 1.25 1.5, 100.5, 368.75, it can be anything up to about 3 years.
>
> I need to convert to Dayss:Hrs:minutes ddd:hh:mm
>
> so 1.5 would be 1:12:00
> 1.25 would be 1:06:00
> 368.75 would be 368:18:00
>
> If something is 29 days, 23 hrs, & 50 minutes that is important to my world
>
> Hey thanks for your time
>
> Todd

Originally Posted by Niek Otten

Hi Todd,

Excel stores dates and times as numbers (1 equals one day) too.
Just format Custom as d:hh:mm and you get waht you require

--
Kind regards,

Niek Otten

"Todd F." <ToddF@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:139468A0-89F2-41D3-A799-17DEC32EA558@microsoft.com...
>I have a number coming otu in decimal form representing days
>
> .25, .5, 1.25 1.5, 100.5, 368.75, it can be anything up to about 3 years.
>
> I need to convert to Dayss:Hrs:minutes ddd:hh:mm
>
> so 1.5 would be 1:12:00
> 1.25 would be 1:06:00
> 368.75 would be 368:18:00
>
> If something is 29 days, 23 hrs, & 50 minutes that is important to my world
>
> Hey thanks for your time
>
> Todd

If you format as d:hh:mm you won't get the correct result for 368.75. that format can't show any value above 31:23:59.

I don't think you can achieve this with cell formatting - try a formula in another cell

=INT(MROUND(A1,"00:01"))&":"&TEXT(MROUND(A1,"00:01"),"hh:mm")

MROUND is part of analysis toolpak

outstanding thankyou very much this is a cool formula

"daddylonglegs" wrote:

>
> Niek Otten Wrote:
> > Hi Todd,
> >
> > Excel stores dates and times as numbers (1 equals one day) too.
> > Just format Custom as d:hh:mm and you get waht you require
> >
> > --
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Niek Otten
> >
> > "Todd F." <ToddF@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:139468A0-89F2-41D3-A799-17DEC32EA558@microsoft.com...
> > >I have a number coming otu in decimal form representing days
> > >
> > > .25, .5, 1.25 1.5, 100.5, 368.75, it can be anything up to about 3
> > years.
> > >
> > > I need to convert to Dayss:Hrs:minutes ddd:hh:mm
> > >
> > > so 1.5 would be 1:12:00
> > > 1.25 would be 1:06:00
> > > 368.75 would be 368:18:00
> > >
> > > If something is 29 days, 23 hrs, & 50 minutes that is important to my
> > world
> > >
> > > Hey thanks for your time
> > >
> > > Todd
>
> If you format as d:hh:mm you won't get the correct result for 368.75.
> that format can't show any value above 31:23:59.
>
> I don't think you can achieve this with cell formatting - try a formula
> in another cell
>
> =INT(MROUND(A1,"00:01"))&":"&TEXT(MROUND(A1,"00:01"),"hh:mm")
>
> MROUND is part of analysis toolpak
>
>
> --
> daddylonglegs
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>

I am not getting proper days after 29 - and if I format

dd:hh:mm ddd:hh:mm
395.5 29:12:0 Tue:12:00

any thoughts






"Niek Otten" wrote:

> Hi Todd,
>
> Excel stores dates and times as numbers (1 equals one day) too.
> Just format Custom as d:hh:mm and you get waht you require
>
> --
> Kind regards,
>
> Niek Otten
>
> "Todd F." <ToddF@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:139468A0-89F2-41D3-A799-17DEC32EA558@microsoft.com...
> >I have a number coming otu in decimal form representing days
> >
> > .25, .5, 1.25 1.5, 100.5, 368.75, it can be anything up to about 3 years.
> >
> > I need to convert to Dayss:Hrs:minutes ddd:hh:mm
> >
> > so 1.5 would be 1:12:00
> > 1.25 would be 1:06:00
> > 368.75 would be 368:18:00
> >
> > If something is 29 days, 23 hrs, & 50 minutes that is important to my world
> >
> > Hey thanks for your time
> >
> > Todd
>
>
>

=INT(A1)&":"&TEXT(A1,"hh:mm")

for some reason you can't show elapsed days in Excel. "d" returns the day
of the month (395.5 is equal to January 29th, 1901). You will have to use
the above formula or daddylonglegs' formula. The result of both will be a
text string.

"Todd F." wrote:

> I am not getting proper days after 29 - and if I format
>
> dd:hh:mm ddd:hh:mm
> 395.5 29:12:0 Tue:12:00
>
> any thoughts
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "Niek Otten" wrote:
>
> > Hi Todd,
> >
> > Excel stores dates and times as numbers (1 equals one day) too.
> > Just format Custom as d:hh:mm and you get waht you require
> >
> > --
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Niek Otten
> >
> > "Todd F." <ToddF@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:139468A0-89F2-41D3-A799-17DEC32EA558@microsoft.com...
> > >I have a number coming otu in decimal form representing days
> > >
> > > .25, .5, 1.25 1.5, 100.5, 368.75, it can be anything up to about 3 years.
> > >
> > > I need to convert to Dayss:Hrs:minutes ddd:hh:mm
> > >
> > > so 1.5 would be 1:12:00
> > > 1.25 would be 1:06:00
> > > 368.75 would be 368:18:00
> > >
> > > If something is 29 days, 23 hrs, & 50 minutes that is important to my world
> > >
> > > Hey thanks for your time
> > >
> > > Todd
> >
> >
> >

I really appreciate the time this formula is goign to really help - thanks
everyone

"Sloth" wrote:

> =INT(A1)&":"&TEXT(A1,"hh:mm")
>
> for some reason you can't show elapsed days in Excel. "d" returns the day
> of the month (395.5 is equal to January 29th, 1901). You will have to use
> the above formula or daddylonglegs' formula. The result of both will be a
> text string.
>
> "Todd F." wrote:
>
> > I am not getting proper days after 29 - and if I format
> >
> > dd:hh:mm ddd:hh:mm
> > 395.5 29:12:0 Tue:12:00
> >
> > any thoughts
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Niek Otten" wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Todd,
> > >
> > > Excel stores dates and times as numbers (1 equals one day) too.
> > > Just format Custom as d:hh:mm and you get waht you require
> > >
> > > --
> > > Kind regards,
> > >
> > > Niek Otten
> > >
> > > "Todd F." <ToddF@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:139468A0-89F2-41D3-A799-17DEC32EA558@microsoft.com...
> > > >I have a number coming otu in decimal form representing days
> > > >
> > > > .25, .5, 1.25 1.5, 100.5, 368.75, it can be anything up to about 3 years.
> > > >
> > > > I need to convert to Dayss:Hrs:minutes ddd:hh:mm
> > > >
> > > > so 1.5 would be 1:12:00
> > > > 1.25 would be 1:06:00
> > > > 368.75 would be 368:18:00
> > > >
> > > > If something is 29 days, 23 hrs, & 50 minutes that is important to my world
> > > >
> > > > Hey thanks for your time
> > > >
> > > > Todd
> > >
> > >
> > >