Formula to add minutes to date+time in Excel
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00:00 Formula To Add Minutes To Date+Time In Excel
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You would need to divide the number of minutes by 1440
(24 hours in a day × 60 minutes in an hour) and then add that to the date.
=B4+(B3/1440)
or if you want to be more verbose...
=B4+(B3/24/60)
The reason this works is that Excel date+time values are stored as a floating point decimal number representing the number of days that have passed since January 1st 1900. So one hour is essentially represented as 0.04166666666
(1 day ÷ 24 hours). If you further divide that by 60 (the number of minutes in an hour) then you will get the representation of minutes which is 0.00069444444
(1 day ÷ 24 hours ÷ 60 minutes).
The reason that =TIME(...)
does not work as you expected is that it's return value is limited to less than 1 day (i.e.0
to 0.99999999999
). Anything that would result in more than 1 day would wrap around again.