Date and Time duration formula

**tep1981** · 09-16-2013, 12:09 PM

I've been using with success the following formula to calculate the difference between two cells

=TEXT(D2-C2,"h:mm:ss")

This works if the two cells are formatted like

02/09/2013 07:00 - 02/09/2013 19:00

However this formula does not work if the cells are

mon 02/09/2013 07:00 - mon 02/09/2013 19:00

I extract a mass amount of data like this, is there a formula for this?

thx in advance

**BadlySpelledBuoy** · 09-16-2013, 12:28 PM

How about something like:
=TEXT(RIGHT(D2,LEN(D2)-FIND(" ",D2))-RIGHT(C2,LEN(C2)-FIND(" ",C2)),"h:mm:ss")

or

=TEXT(RIGHT(D2,LEN(D2)-4)-RIGHT(C2,LEN(C2)-4),"h:mm:ss")

or

=TEXT(RIGHT(D2,16)-RIGHT(C2,16),"h:mm:ss")

Which one is best will really depend on any possible differences in the data.

**tep1981** · 09-17-2013, 03:03 AM

Each of those formulas works fine, thx very much

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