The TEXT function picks the date from the timestamp and returns it according to the format supplied in the second argument (which in our case is dd/mm/yyyy). In this formula, the TEXT function has been given the timestamp in cell B3 as the value to convert. This is the formula we will use to remove the time from the timestamp: This way, we can get the TEXT function to convert the timestamp into a date in our choice of date format.
The TEXT function converts a value to text in a specific number format. The format applied removes the time and shows the date: Using the TEXT Function We’ll go with the regular Short Date format. Click on the little arrow on the bar to see the list of formats and select a date format of your liking. This is done by heading to the Number section in the Home tab. Now that the decimal has been converted to 0, the time is displayed in the results as 0:00.įrom here on, the format can be converted to a date format to remove the time completely. Dates in Excel are stored as an integer and time as a decimal. The results are returned with the time from the timestamp addressed as 0. The year, month, and day are then passed onto the DATE function which arranges them into a date format dd-mmm-yyyy. The YEAR, MONTH, and DAY functions have been supplied with the timestamp in B3 to extract the year, month, and day. We will add in the YEAR, MONTH, and DAY functions in place of the year, month, and day, nesting them within the DATE function, feeding the 3 functions with the timestamp to extract the date and ignore the time. The DATE function returns a date in dd-mmm-yyyy format from the individually supplied year, month, and day. With the changed format, the time has been completely removed, leaving the dates: Using the DATE Function with DAY, MONTH & YEAR Select either of the two date options, Short Date being most common. From the Home tab, in the Number section, click on the bar reading Custom to change the format of the cells.Select all the cells resultant from the INT function.Now all that is left is to switch the results to a date format instead of Custom format. The custom format of the cell leaves the 0 to be displayed, which is why the time element of the timestamp has resulted in 0:00 after applying the INT function. The INT function has rounded off the number 44201.68 to the nearest integer which is 44201, making the time 0.
Another proof of this shows if you change the format of any date from Date to General you will again see a number.Ībove, you may have noticed the first value has been pasted as a decimal.
#Remove space in time cell serial numbers#
Why? Dates are stored in Excel as serial numbers and time is stored as a decimal. To explain the role of integers, if we were to copy both B3 and C3 and paste their values, we will see a couple of numbers like so: We have used the INT function with a single argument a cell reference to the timestamp to round the timestamp down to the nearest integer.
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