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    Wanting to change Time UTC Format to Central Time

    Hello,

    I have been looking for an answer to my dilemma. Below, I have Cell A1-A8 (tried attaching this to the thread but not letting me), it displays the date and time.

    Log Date
    07/31/2019 7:47:56 tt
    07/31/2019 7:46:21 tt
    07/31/2019 7:39:25 tt
    07/31/2019 6:53:55 tt
    07/31/2019 6:38:03 tt
    07/31/2019 5:27:43 tt
    07/31/2019 5:16:53 tt

    The above times are in UTC (7 hours behind) and I want to know if there is a way to convert it to something like below:

    Log Date
    07/31/2019 2:47p
    07/31/2019 2:46p
    07/31/2019 2:39p
    07/31/2019 1:53p
    07/31/2019 1:38p
    07/31/2019 12:27p
    07/31/2019 12:16p

    Any help would be appreciated.

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    Re: Wanting to change Time UTC Format to Central Time

    Welcome to the forum.

    If your dates/times are real dates/times* then you can just add 7 hours like this:
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    *Excel stores dates/times as numbers. Dates start with 1 being 1st Jan 1900, so 31st July 2019 is 43677. Hours are parts of a day, as decimals, so 12noon is 0.5, 6pm is 0.75, etc. Combining them means that 6pm on 31st July 2019 is 43677.75. You can check if your dates/times are real dates/times by changing the cell format to 'General'. If you get a number (for ex 43677.32495 for your first date/time) then you have real dates/times. If the cell stays the same (07/31/2019 7:47:56) then you have text which looks like a date.

    If you have 'text dates/times' then you can convert them to real dates and times using 'Text to Columns' on the 'Data' tab.
    Make sure you have a blank column B.
    Select your cells (A2:A8), click 'Text to Columns'.
    Choose 'Delimited' and click 'Next'.
    Choose 'Space' and click 'Next'.
    In the preview at the bottom select the 1st column, then choose 'Date' and 'MDY' at the top. Leave the second column as 'General'.
    Click 'Finish'.

    Now you will have two columns, one with dates and one with times, in A2:A8 and B2:B8.
    Insert a new column C and put this in C2, then drag down:
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    You can now add 7 hours to this column, using the very first formula I posted above:
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    or you can copy C2:C8 and 'Paste Values' over A2:A8, then delete the now-not-needed columns B and C, then use the same formula with column A.

    That was a long post, sorry - I hope it helps.
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    Re: Wanting to change Time UTC Format to Central Time

    Aardigspook,

    Thanks for the swift reply! I will give this a shot! I did find out that I don't have real time but text so I'll try your method and post my results as soon as possible.

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