yogi_Compute Elapsed Time Row By Row From A Table Of From To Clock Hours

Yogi Anand, D.Eng, P.E.       Google Spreadsheet    Post  #643   Jul 20, 2012     www.energyefficientbuild.com.


user kimbelyj1792 said:(http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/docs/spreadsheets/osoYbMPQtrc)
Formula may need to be adjusted? Has been working until today

I have been using the same formula and it has been working fine. Today, I'm getting an odd result and the formula has not changed.

The data below are 2 rows of times and a third row of hours and minutes lapsed.

The formula is in col. C but the row numbers change as you go down. The formula below is what is in cell C4.

15:50 - 02:30 should equal 13 hours and 20 minutes but on the sheet it comes out to 1 hour 20 minutes. From typing this out it looks like I can see where the 1:20 result is coming from, but why is it doing that? I need it to show the full 13 hours and 20 minutes.

Any assistance would be helpful. THANKS!

=if(B4*A4,TEXT(B4-A4, "h:mm"),"")  

A B C

06:55 17:40 10:45

09:15 18:40 9:25 

10:00 18:30 8:30  

02:30 15:50 1:20 

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kimberly's formula is presenting the difference in To and From time in Clock Hours rather than as Elapsed Time. Let us have a look at the solution to the problem as follows