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Norman Martens's avatar
Norman Martens
Copper Contributor
Jan 04, 2019

Time values with decimal seconds

I need to be able to enter times with decimal seconds.  For instance, 1:15:25.50 representing 25 and 1/2 seconds after 1:15. I enter the following: =TIME(1,15,25.5) and format the cell as:  hh:mm:ss.ss and it displays:  

01:15:25.25

Why doesn't it display 01:15:25.5?

 

When will Excel support real time stamps.  Almost every language has them.  For instance, this SQL command:

SELECT SYSDATETIME() ; 
 returns

2007-04-30 13:10:02.0474381

 

How do I download time stamp fields from a database to Excel?

 

Thanks.

excel

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  • SergeiBaklan's avatar
    SergeiBaklan
    Diamond Contributor
    Jan 04, 2019

    Hi Norman,

     

    Two reasons are here. First, in you custom format hh:mm:ss.ss you repeat showing seconds at the end, thus it show .25 where 25 is number of seconds. To show milliseconds use custom format like

    hh:mm:ss.000

    when the time will be shown as 01:15::25.500

     

    Another point TIME function doesn't work with decimals. If you use decimal numbers as parameters they will be cut to integers. For example, =TIME(1.7,0,0) returns 01:00:00 (it takes integer part of 1.7). Same with seconds if you enter it as 25.5, TIME returns 25 seconds only.

     

    To work with TIME and milliseconds you shall add them manually like

    =TIME(1,15,25)+0.5/24/60/60

    Or you may enter it without using the TIME as 1:15:25.5 (however, in formula bar it'll be shown as 01:15:26)


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