Comments on: Excel Hell: Convert Seconds To Minutes and Seconds In Excel (Esp for Google Analytics)

By: cat pickett

cat pickett — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:03:11 +0000

Thank you — this worked for me! !#$%^&* Google Analytics…

By: vincelaxton

vincelaxton — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:29:18 +0000

Can I back you guys up a piece.

If I want to add or subtract a column of minutes & seconds, how do I enter the data and SUM the product?

Does this formula do what I want?

thanks

By: andyfox1979

andyfox1979 — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:32:15 +0000

Thanks. I just thought it might be helpful to others— the misanthropy part is that nobody else had made a page like this so i had to do it.

By: InteMarket

InteMarket — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:56:12 +0000

Excellent, Fooo. Simplicity is beauty. You da man!

Q: How does all this relate to misanthropy?

By: andyfox1979

andyfox1979 — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:12:48 +0000

Thanks for the tips. I’ll try it next month on my report

By: fooo

fooo — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:35:30 +0000

Actually I was totally wrong. The “correct way” to do this is to
1. convert the seconds into fractions of days (Excel thinks of time spans as fractions of a day… goodness knows why)
2. format the column to display mm:ss

=A1/(24*60*60) (Converting seconds into days)

By: fooo

fooo — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:20:21 +0000

ROUND could also be used in place of TRUNC

By: fooo

fooo — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:19:00 +0000

Actually this works even better…
=INT(A1/60)&”:”& IF(MOD(A1,60)<10,”0″&TRUNC(MOD(A1,60),0),TRUNC(MOD(A1,60),0))

Gets rid of those nasty dangling pieces of seconds.

By: wim

wim — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:01:48 +0000

Thanks for the formula. It needs a small correction: If the resulting seconds are less than 10, your version gives an incorrect seconds value. Also, the INT on the MOD value is not strictly necessary, as the MOD function returns an INT. Use this formula to account for seconds less than 10:
=INT(A1/60)&”:”&IF(MOD(A1,60)<10,”0″&MOD(A1,60),MOD(A1,60))