Numbers - Timesheet formulas
I'm trying to create a timesheet in Numbers. What is the formula to round the hours worked to the nearest 15
Minutes?
Time In: Time Out: Total: - nearest 15 minutes round off
MacBook Pro 15″, OS X 10.11
Assuming you want to the nearest quarter hour then you can do something like this:
The formula in C2 is:
=DURATION(,,,MROUND(DUR2MINUTES(B2−A2),15)):
You need to keep those leading ,,, within the formula.
As you've discovered Numbers handles date-time differently from Excel. It also has a Duration data format, which Excel doesn't have.
This formula converts the Duration that results from subtracting one date-time from another into decimal minutes, then uses MROUND to convert to the nearest 15 minutes. The DURATION function converts this back into DURATION, which makes it easy to display as hours and minutes.
SG
Assuming you want to the nearest quarter hour then you can do something like this:
The formula in C2 is:
=DURATION(,,,MROUND(DUR2MINUTES(B2−A2),15)):
You need to keep those leading ,,, within the formula.
As you've discovered Numbers handles date-time differently from Excel. It also has a Duration data format, which Excel doesn't have.
This formula converts the Duration that results from subtracting one date-time from another into decimal minutes, then uses MROUND to convert to the nearest 15 minutes. The DURATION function converts this back into DURATION, which makes it easy to display as hours and minutes.
SG
I got an answer from ChatGPT, but I got the error as you can see in the screenshot below.
In Apple Numbers, the formula syntax can be a bit different than in Excel. To calculate the time difference and round it to the nearest 0.25, 0.5, or 0.75, you can try the following steps:
1. Assume that A1 contains the time in and B1 contains the time out.
2. To calculate the time difference in hours, you can use the formula `=(B1 - A1) * 24` in C1.
3. To round off to the nearest 0.25, you can use the formula `=ROUND((B1 - A1) * 24 / 0.25) * 0.25`.
Put the above formula in a cell to get the rounded-off time difference between time in and time out.
This should give you the total hours worked, rounded to the nearest 0.25, 0.5, or 0.75.
I want the end with round off by .25 .50 .75 as it should answer from 6:40 to round off by 6:45
I did try with this formula, but it won’t work as I must have something type wrong formula entry.
I hope this helps to see.
Thank you,
Jeff
Do you mean round off the Time In and Time Out to the nearest quarter hour and take the difference?
Or do you mean you want the difference in minutes (in your example that works out to 400) to round to the nearest number divisible by 15, e.g. 405 minutes?
Or something else?
SG
Jeff,
in your formula you are referencing B1 and A1 (text) instead of B2 and A2 (time values).
Paul.
It works! Thank you for solving this problem. It was quite tricky, but I'll save it for my project.
Jeff
Timesheet formulas - nearest 15 minutes round off
