Subtracting time past midnight

[Robert Schoenert]

I want to be able to subtract two time fields, one starting before
midnight and the other past midnight. example:
starttime 23:00 and endtime 01:10
The answer is 1:10.
How can I do this with all times on the 24 hour clock?

[Steve Jorgensen]

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 05:22:25 GMT, Robert Schoenert <rs********@mindspring.com>
wrote:

I want to be able to subtract two time fields, one starting before
midnight and the other past midnight. example:
starttime 23:00 and endtime 01:10
The answer is 1:10.
How can I do this with all times on the 24 hour clock?

Easy. If you always know what the time direction should be, then any negative
number result needs to have 1 day added to it.

Public Function TimeDiff( _
StartTime As Variant, _
EndTime As Variant _
) As Variant
varTimeDiff As Variant

varTimeDiff = EndTime - StartTime
If varTimeDiff < 1 Then
varTimeDiff = varTimeDiff + 1.0 ' 1.0 = 1 day
End If

' CVDate in case data type is changed during computation.
TimeDiff = CVDate(varTimeDiff)
End Function

[Allen Browne]

Add a day to the EndTime if it is less than the StartTime:

Minutes: DateDiff("n", [StartTime], [EndTime] + IIf([EndTime] <
[StartTime]), 1, 0))

For instructions on formatting that as hours and minutes, see:
Calculating elapsed time
at:
http://members.iinet.net.au/~allenbrowne/casu-13.html

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"Robert Schoenert" <rs********@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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I want to be able to subtract two time fields, one starting before
midnight and the other past midnight. example:
starttime 23:00 and endtime 01:10
The answer is 1:10.
How can I do this with all times on the 24 hour clock?

[Trevor Best]

Steve Jorgensen wrote:

If varTimeDiff < 1 Then

I'd change that to a while loop, to catch the realy slow ones :-)
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[Steve Jorgensen]

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 08:29:58 +0000, Trevor Best <no****@besty.org.uk> wrote:

Steve Jorgensen wrote:

If varTimeDiff < 1 Then

I'd change that to a while loop, to catch the realy slow ones :-)

If there's no date information, then the diff could never be greater than 1
day. If there is date information, then we could simply subtract, and
multiply by 24 to get a result in fractional hours, and the negative should
never come up.