Chapter 13
Keeping Well-Timed Functions
In This Chapter
Handling time
Formatting time values
Working with hours, minutes, and seconds
Getting the current time
Calculating elapsed time
Excel has a superb handful of functions for working with times and performing calculations on time values. You can analyze data to the hour, minute, or second. And Excel helps you get this done in a New York minute!
Understanding How Excel Handles Time
In the previous chapter, I explain how Excel uses a serial number system to work with dates. Well, guess what? The same system is used to work with time. The key difference is that, although dates are represented by the integer portion of a serial number, time is represented by the decimal portion.
What does this mean? Consider this: 41640. That is the serial number representation for January 1, 2014. Notice, though, that there is no indication of the time of day. The assumed time then is 12 a.m. (midnight), the start of the day. You can, however, represent ...
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