Converting days into Years and Months not working for some data

Copper Contributor

Hi 

 

I have the formula below and its returning incorrect data

=INT(O83/365) & " years and " &MOD(O83,12)& " months"

 

O83 = 240 days

 

I am getting the result of 0 Years and 0 months.

 

The same is for 230 returning 0 Years and 2months.

 

Please help.

3 Replies

@Tknerd 

Such formulas will only return an approximate result, since a year is not always 365 days, and since a month does not always have the same number of days. If you're willing to accept approximate results:

 

Years: =INT(O83/365.25)

Months: =INT(MOD(O83,365.25)*12/365.25) or =INT(MOD(O83*12/365.25,12))

 

If you have a start date and end date in, say, M83 and N83, more accurate formulas are

 

Years: =DATEDIF(M83,N83,"y")

Months: =DATEDIF(M83,N83,"ym")

Hey @Tknerd,

 

I'm not super familiar with the formulas you're using, but I found one that seems to work fine for me:

=DATEDIF(0,A1,"y") & " Years " & DATEDIF(0,A1,"ym") & " Months " & DATEDIF(0,A1,"md") & " Days "

 

Just replace A1 with the cell containing your count of days.

 

Here's a short article explaining it: https://www.excelhow.net/how-to-convert-days-to-years-months-days-in-excel.html

 

I hope this helps!

@Tknerd 

As variant

=YEAR(O83)-1900 & " years " & (MONTH(O83)-1) & " months"