Converting time stamps in excel to dates

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user10165 picture user10165 · Apr 17, 2013 · Viewed 178k times · Source

I have a very large excel spread sheet that has a column of time stamps. Does anyone know convert that over to a date? Is there a function I can use? I tried format cell date but that doesn't work. My file is 91,568 KB. If there is a simpler way to this that would be great. I'm open to ideas.

Thank you in advance :)

P.S. I don't know any programming languages

Answer

NeplatnyUdaj picture NeplatnyUdaj · Apr 18, 2013

Use this formula and set formatting to the desired time format:

=(((COLUMN_ID_HERE/60)/60)/24)+DATE(1970,1,1)

Source: http://www.bajb.net/2010/05/excel-timestamp-to-date/ Tested in libreoffice

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