Convert date/time to text

P

Pam

An automatically generated report has a column of dates/times in the format:
mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss AM

We want to be able to sort this column ONLY by the times. We don't care
about the date. When we change the format of the cells to contain only the
time, the sort sorts by the entire date/time (because we never really changed
the contents of the cells).

So, basically what I want to do is 'strip out' the date information, leaving
only the time information. Any ideas?
 
S

Sarah_Lecturer

Hilight the column
Click on Data
Text to columns
Clicked next
Tick "Space"
Click next
Click Finish

Sort as required x
 
G

Guest

Hi

You could use a helper column with =MOD(A2,1) in it and sort on that.

Hope this helps.
Andy.
 
P

Pam

I had great luck with separating the date/time using Text/Columns. (Thanks!)
But now my problem is that the time is 1:00:00 and to get the sort to work
correctly I would need it to display 01:00:00. I need the leading "0", so all
of the text I am sorting has the same amount of characters.

Any ideas on that??
 
D

David Biddulph

Pam said:
An automatically generated report has a column of dates/times in the
format:
mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss AM

We want to be able to sort this column ONLY by the times. We don't care
about the date. When we change the format of the cells to contain only the
time, the sort sorts by the entire date/time (because we never really
changed
the contents of the cells).

So, basically what I want to do is 'strip out' the date information,
leaving
only the time information. Any ideas?
Click to expand...

=MOD(A1,1)
 
D

David Biddulph

:

I had great luck with separating the date/time using Text/Columns.
(Thanks!)
But now my problem is that the time is 1:00:00 and to get the sort to work
correctly I would need it to display 01:00:00. I need the leading "0", so
all
of the text I am sorting has the same amount of characters.

Any ideas on that??
Click to expand...

Custom format hh:mm:ss
 
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