determining fractional seconds from serial time

How do I get fractions of a second from the serial time?
If I do
format( t, "hh:mm:ss.sss")

where t is the time I'm looking at, all the fractional part does is repeat
the number of seconds as a repeating fraction.

I tried dividing by 3600, 12, 12 in order but that gives me the wrong
answer...

David Gerstman

format( t, "hh:mm:ss.000")


--

HTH

RP
(remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)


"David Gerstman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> How do I get fractions of a second from the serial time?
> If I do
> format( t, "hh:mm:ss.sss")
>
> where t is the time I'm looking at, all the fractional part does is repeat
> the number of seconds as a repeating fraction.
>
> I tried dividing by 3600, 12, 12 in order but that gives me the wrong
> answer...
>
> David Gerstman

Hi Dave -
I tired this after reading your post and got a mis match error.
Sub test()
Dim temp As String
temp = ""
temp = FormatDateTime(Now, "hh:mm:ss.000")
MsgBox temp
Exit Sub

my need is to measure a time interval in tenths of seconds.
Can you help please?
thanks,
Neal Z.

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

> format( t, "hh:mm:ss.000")
>
>
> --
>
> HTH
>
> RP
> (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)
>
>
> "David Gerstman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > How do I get fractions of a second from the serial time?
> > If I do
> > format( t, "hh:mm:ss.sss")
> >
> > where t is the time I'm looking at, all the fractional part does is repeat
> > the number of seconds as a repeating fraction.
> >
> > I tried dividing by 3600, 12, 12 in order but that gives me the wrong
> > answer...
> >
> > David Gerstman
>
>
>

Hi Bob -
I tried this and got the seconds just fine, but the tenths of seconds
always show as zero. Is there a ways to show tenths of secons?
thanks.
Neal Z.


"Bob Phillips" wrote:

> format( t, "hh:mm:ss.000")
>
>
> --
>
> HTH
>
> RP
> (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)
>
>
> "David Gerstman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > How do I get fractions of a second from the serial time?
> > If I do
> > format( t, "hh:mm:ss.sss")
> >
> > where t is the time I'm looking at, all the fractional part does is repeat
> > the number of seconds as a repeating fraction.
> >
> > I tried dividing by 3600, 12, 12 in order but that gives me the wrong
> > answer...
> >
> > David Gerstman
>
>
>

But _Bob_ used plain old Format--not FormatDateTime.

Did you try that?

Neal Zimm wrote:
>
> Hi Dave -
> I tired this after reading your post and got a mis match error.
> Sub test()
> Dim temp As String
> temp = ""
> temp = FormatDateTime(Now, "hh:mm:ss.000")
> MsgBox temp
> Exit Sub
>
> my need is to measure a time interval in tenths of seconds.
> Can you help please?
> thanks,
> Neal Z.
>
> "Bob Phillips" wrote:
>
> > format( t, "hh:mm:ss.000")
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > RP
> > (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)
> >
> >
> > "David Gerstman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> > > How do I get fractions of a second from the serial time?
> > > If I do
> > > format( t, "hh:mm:ss.sss")
> > >
> > > where t is the time I'm looking at, all the fractional part does is repeat
> > > the number of seconds as a repeating fraction.
> > >
> > > I tried dividing by 3600, 12, 12 in order but that gives me the wrong
> > > answer...
> > >
> > > David Gerstman
> >
> >
> >

--

Dave Peterson

Option Explicit
Sub test()
Dim temp As String
Dim temp1 As String
Dim myTime As Variant

'just to make sure that there's a fraction of a second
myTime = Now / 10

temp = Application.Text(myTime, "hh:mm:ss.000")
temp1 = Format(myTime, "hh:mm:ss.000")

MsgBox temp & vbLf & temp1

End Sub

VBAs format behaves slightly different than the =text() worksheet function.


Neal Zimm wrote:
>
> Hi Bob -
> I tried this and got the seconds just fine, but the tenths of seconds
> always show as zero. Is there a ways to show tenths of secons?
> thanks.
> Neal Z.
>
> "Bob Phillips" wrote:
>
> > format( t, "hh:mm:ss.000")
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > RP
> > (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)
> >
> >
> > "David Gerstman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> > > How do I get fractions of a second from the serial time?
> > > If I do
> > > format( t, "hh:mm:ss.sss")
> > >
> > > where t is the time I'm looking at, all the fractional part does is repeat
> > > the number of seconds as a repeating fraction.
> > >
> > > I tried dividing by 3600, 12, 12 in order but that gives me the wrong
> > > answer...
> > >
> > > David Gerstman
> >
> >
> >

--

Dave Peterson

Dear Dave -
Thanks so much. Yes the vba format does differ from the application.text
approach.
a.text WORKS. (and the other does NOT)

I ran the sub below about 20 times. Temp1 always showed .000 and temp
varied the fraction.

Thanks again,
Neal



"Dave Peterson" wrote:

> Option Explicit
> Sub test()
> Dim temp As String
> Dim temp1 As String
> Dim myTime As Variant
>
> 'just to make sure that there's a fraction of a second
> myTime = Now / 10
>
> temp = Application.Text(myTime, "hh:mm:ss.000")
> temp1 = Format(myTime, "hh:mm:ss.000")
>
> MsgBox temp & vbLf & temp1
>
> End Sub
>
> VBAs format behaves slightly different than the =text() worksheet function.
>
>
> Neal Zimm wrote:
> >
> > Hi Bob -
> > I tried this and got the seconds just fine, but the tenths of seconds
> > always show as zero. Is there a ways to show tenths of secons?
> > thanks.
> > Neal Z.
> >
> > "Bob Phillips" wrote:
> >
> > > format( t, "hh:mm:ss.000")
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > HTH
> > >
> > > RP
> > > (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)
> > >
> > >
> > > "David Gerstman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > > news:[email protected]...
> > > > How do I get fractions of a second from the serial time?
> > > > If I do
> > > > format( t, "hh:mm:ss.sss")
> > > >
> > > > where t is the time I'm looking at, all the fractional part does is repeat
> > > > the number of seconds as a repeating fraction.
> > > >
> > > > I tried dividing by 3600, 12, 12 in order but that gives me the wrong
> > > > answer...
> > > >
> > > > David Gerstman
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
> --
>
> Dave Peterson
>