Thanks Dave that did it..

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

> Did you use:
> =c2-c3
>
> If you did, then when excel sees negative times (or dates), it shows them as
> ####'s.
>
> You can avoid this by using the 1904 base date system.
>
> Tools|Options|calculation tab is where you'd toggle this.
>
> But if you have any dates in that workbook, they'll change by 4 years and one
> day.
>
> If c2 is the following day, you could do this:
>
> =c2-c3+if(c2<c3,24,0)
> or shorter
> =c2-c3+(c2<c3)
>
> A more robust way would be to enter both the date and time in each cell.
>
> Art wrote:
> >
> > Dodo & William
> >
> > I have encountered this error. Could you tell me what I'm missing.
> >
> > c3 = 22:47:00
> > c2 = 00:01:00
> >
> > answer: ##############
> >
> > I only get the above answer when using the midnight time.
> >
> >
> >
> > "Art" wrote:
> >
> > > Thank you Dodo & William
> > >
> > > "Art" wrote:
> > >
> > > > Need Help..
> > > >
> > > > I would like to subtract the end time(hh:mm:ss) from the start
> > > > time(hh:mm:ss) to get the duration (HH:MM:SS) of how long a job took to
> > > > process.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
>
> --
>
> Dave Peterson
>