Google sheets duration to seconds - google-sheets

I have a cell formatted as a duration (6:49:00)
I want to convert that to an Integer of total seconds
This formula gives me the right number of seconds =C3*60
409:00:00 <-- But I want this as just 409

To convert duration to an integer expressing the number of seconds, use a formula such as
=value(A1*24*3600)
Time values are recorded so that 1 is one day. Multiplying by 24 (hours/day) and 3600 (seconds/hour) converts that to seconds. Then value makes it a number rather than duration.
Old answer, about formatting only.
You don't need any formulas to format duration as the number of seconds.
Go to Format > Number > More formats > More data and time formats
Delete the pre-filled format fields and add "Elapsed seconds" from the dropdown menu.

I have found this solution:
let the cell A1 filled with duration like 1:22:33, than formula
=HOUR(A1)*3600+MINUTE(A1)*60+SECOND(A1)
will do the trick.
For example, 1:01:01 -> 3661

=HOUR(A1) will NOT work if your hours in the duration is > 24 of course. So the last example is not correct.
What will work is the following.
Given: A duration in hours and minutes. eg 225:04 or 9:20 or 62:35
Format must be set as this (Elapsed hours:minutes)
=INDEX(SPLIT(A1, ":"), 0, 1)*60 + INDEX(SPLIT(A1, ":"), 0, 2)

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I hope everyone reading this is doing well. I am making attendance sheets on Google Sheets that also calculates the salary of the person. It is entirely automated except for one part, the part that calculates salaries.
For that I need to separate the Hours and Minutes worked so that I can calculate the salary accurately based on 60 minutes instead of the first half being in hours and the second from a percentage of 100.
It coverts the hours into days and omits the remaining hours. Please assist. Thank you!
What it does
What it should do
HOUR() returns the hour component of a specific time, so it will always return a value between 0 and 23.
In Google Sheets, times are just numbers where 1 indicates 1 day. So a duration of hh:mm:ss means hh/24 + mm/24/60 + ss/24/60/60 which means hours_in_a_day + minutes_in_a_day + seconds_in_a_day. (You can see this if you format the cell as "Number")
So, if you want to extract the hours from a duration, you have to multiply it by 24 and take the INT().
=INT(B20*24)
Spreadsheet time values such was elapsed hours are in units of days. In your spreadsheet, salary is recorded per hour. To multiply the hours by the salary, first convert the salary per hour to salary per day, and then multiply by the elapsed hours, like this:
=n((B23 * 24) * B20)
The n() wrapper is there just to get the number format right. You can also leave it out and format the formula cell as Format > Number > Currency.
See this answer for an explanation of how date and time values work in spreadsheets.

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I'm making calculations on production cost (in number of resources) and duration.
I have a process that takes 5 minutes. Using the Duration format, I would enter that as 00:05:00.
I want to queue up this process a certain number of times and calculate the total duration. The output should either be something like 16:35:00 or 5 02:15:00. A "d HH.mm.ss" format.
How, in Google Sheets, do I multiply a Duration by an integer to get a total Duration? To be clear, I am not doing a summation of a column of durations. I am taking a duration constant, such as 5 minutes or 25 minutes, and multiplying it by an integer representing the number of times the process will be run, consecutively.
All these attempts resulted in Formula Parse Error:
=(5*00:05:00)
=(112*00:05:00.000)
=(VALUE(C27)*00:05:00)
=MULTIPLY(VALUE(C27),00:05:00.000)
Well, blow me down. I came up with a workaround while I was trying different ways to fail. I assigned 00:05:00 to it's own cell with the Duration format, then referenced that cell in the formula.
I.E. =C27*J7 gives me 9:20:00 when C27 equates to 112 (it's a summation of it's own) and J7 is the cell holding 00:05:00.
Still doesn't give me days when it goes over 24 hours, and I'd rather have the duration value as a constant in the formula, but it's a step forward.
Would something like this work for you?? It's no longer a number, but if it's for expressing the amount in your desired format it may be useful:
=IF(ROUNDDOWN(W2*W3),ROUNDDOWN(W2*W3)&"d "&TEXT(W2*W3-ROUNDDOWN(W2*W3),"hh:mm:ss"),TEXT(W2*W3,"hh:mm:ss"))
Change the cell references, obviously
PS: If you want to have the value as a constant in your formula, you can try to change the cell reference with TIME function within your formula:
In both Excel and Google spreadsheet, DATE are represented in a number start counting from 1899/12/30,
which...
1 is equal to 1 day
1/24 is equal to 1 hour
1/24/60 is equal to 1 minute
1/24/60/60 is equal to 1 second
you can do like:
=TODAY()+1 which gives you tomorrow, or...
=TODAY()+12/24 which gives you "date of today" 12:00:00
and when you are done with the calculations, you can simply use a TEXT() to format the NUMBER back into DATE format, such as:
=TEXT(TODAY()+7 +13/24 +15/24/60,"yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss")
will return the date of a week away from today at 01:15:00 p.m.
This date/time format doesn't requires a full date to work, you can get difference of two time format like this:
=TEXT(1/24/60 - 1/24/60/60,"hh:mm:ss")
since 1/24/60 is 1 min, and 1/24/60/60 is 1 second,
this formula returns 00:00:59, telling you that there is a 59 seconds diff. between 1 min and 1 sec.

How to Convert Duration to Time on google sheets?

I have duration data in text format like so:
19min 30s
I would like to convert this to hours and I need the hours to be integers. How do i do that?
I have tried to split the text but I am unable to categorise the array into hours, minutes and seconds
Try
=("0:"&textjoin(":",,REGEXEXTRACT(A1,REGEXREPLACE(A1,"(\d+)","($1)"))))*24
explanation:
The formula extracts numeric values (\d+), then join 0: the first value (minutes) : and the second value (secondes). The result is multiply by 24 to get hours.
use:
=ARRAYFORMULA(IF(A2:A="",,
IFNA(REGEXEXTRACT(A2:A, "(\d+)h")/24)+
IFNA(REGEXEXTRACT(A2:A, "(\d+)min")/24/60)+
IFNA(REGEXEXTRACT(A2:A, "(\d+)s")/24/60/60)))

Doing hourly rate calculations for hour more than 24

I am recording my time spent on a project in google excel sheet. There is a column which does addition of the recorded time and output total time to column say D40. The output time looks like <hoursspent>:<minutesspent>:<secondsspend>. For example 30:30:50 would mean that i have worked for 30 hours and 30 minutes and 50 seconds on a project.
Now, I was using this formula to calculate my total invoice
=(C41*HOUR(D40))+(C41*((Minute(D40)/60)))+(C41*((SECOND(D40)/3600)))
Where C41 cell contains my hourly rate (say $50).
This is working fine as long as the numbers of hours that i have worked are less than 24. The moment my numer of hours go above 24. The Hour function return the modulus value i.e., HOUR(30) would return 6.
How can I make this calculation generic in a way that it oculd calculate on more than 24 hours value too.
Try
=C41*D40*24
and change formet on the result as $
one hour is part of a day, as you know 1/24th of a day, that's why you could multiply by 24 to get hours, and then multiply it by the rate
Try below formula-
=SUMPRODUCT(SPLIT(D40,":"),{C41,C41/60,C41/3600})
When you store a value as HH:mm:ss into an Excel sheet, it automatically formats it as a Time, so it makes sense that HOUR modulos by 24.
Which is why you can simply ignore it. If you have a cell that is formatted as currency (FORMAT > Math > Currency) or any other normal Number-like format, then you can see, if you perform a numerical operation like multiplication, that it stores times like "30:30:50" as if it were a TIMEVALUE with a value over 1. Simply multiply that by 24, and then by your hourly rate, and you'll get your value, i.e,
=D40 * C41 * 24 :
Just replace HOUR(D40) with INT(D40)*24+HOUR(D40)

How to format a number as HH:MM in google sheets

I have Data set in google sheets that shows time spent log for a user in SECONDS.
For example,
Name (text) | Time Spent (number)
user A | 86400
How can format the time spent field as 24:00:00
Followed so many format related articles but all I am getting is 2073600:00:00 or similar weird numbers
You need to first divide by 86400, then set Format > Number > Duration. This is because the duration is evaluated in days (a value of 1 is formatted as 24 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds).
Example: if cell A1 contains the value of "3600" (seconds), you can display it as a duration in A2 by setting the value of A2 to "=A1/86400", then changing the format of A2 to Duration. A2 will display a duration of 1 hour in the default format.
See also How to format a duration as HH:mm in the new Google sheets for custom formatting of the duration.
try:
=INDEX(TEXT(A2:A5/86400, "[h]:mm:ss"))

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