Date conversion

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Kristiaaan

I have a database with date in the following format:
"200209021600" so 2 september 2002 16:00 hr

I cannot figure out how to convert this text to the actual date and time

Who can help me?

Thanks in advance

Kristiaan
 
K

KL

Hi Kristiaaan,

This formula works for me:

=--(TEXT(A1,"0000-00-00 00\:00"))

Don't forget to format the cell as date.

Regards,
KL
 
M

Mangus Pyke

They are coercing text into value as if I were using the function VALUE.
Click to expand...

KL:

Thanks for the response.. while I don't truly understand, that gives
me a starting point. My Excel 2003 Bible and I will go spend a few
moments of quality time with the VALUE function.

Thanks much!

MP-
 
K

Kristiaaan

Hi KL,

Wow, I couldn't make that up myself. You really helped me out, thanks!
Now I can finally make a nice graph of my data... let's see what it tells
me...

Regards,

Kristiaan
 
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