I am using google sheets where there is a duration value of 69:41:00 where it's 69 hours, 41 minutes, 0 secs. There doesn't seem to be a function to convert this to days, hours and minutes so I did some searching and some had suggested a custom function. Not sure exactly how it works but made some changes from the original to fit what I needed. The code below:
/**
* Format Duration to Days,Hours,Minutes
*
* @param {duration} input value.
* @return Days,Hours,Minutes.
* @customfunction
*/
function FormatDuration(duration) {
// Retrieve the hours and minutes
var hrs = duration.getHours();
var days = Math.floor(hrs/24);
var hours = hrs % 24;
var mins = duration.getMinutes();
// Convert the result to a number to use in calculations
var result = days + 'd ' + hours + ' h '+ mins+' min';
return result;
}
The result should be 2d 21h 44 min but instead I got 0d 21 h 35 min. Am I doing something wrong here?
I was going to add, why don't you just use a custom format of
ʺd\d hh\h mm\mʺ ?
This works fine in Excel but not in GS because it uses a different base for dates so duration like 69:41:00 would be interpreted as 1/1/1900 21:41 and the days are not correct. So you would have to break it down into days (whole numbers) and hours+minutes (fractions of a day) like this
=text(int(A1),ʺ#0\d ʺ)&text(mod(A1,1),ʺHH\h MM\mʺ)
You can make it work in Google Scripts if you want to by adjusting the date - should work OK for durations up to 1 month.
The reason for adding 2 to the date is that a time like 03:21:00 (less than a day) is seen as a date - namely 30th December 1899 ! So I add 2 to it to make it 1st January 1900. However, now the day part of the date is 1 and I want it to be zero. So I have to subtract 1 from the day further down.
This strange behaviour is probably why you're advised to do it the other way and work in milliseconds, but I was just interested to see if there was a way of making the original code work.
/**
* Format Duration to Days,Hours,Minutes
*
* @param {duration} input value.
* @return Days,Hours,Minutes.
* @customfunction
*/
function FormatDuration(duration) {
// Add 2 days to the date
var date=new Date(duration.setDate(duration.getDate()+2));
Logger.log(date.getDate());
var hours = duration.getHours();
// Take 1 off the day part of the date
var days = date.getDate()-1;
var mins = duration.getMinutes();
// Convert the result to a number to use in calculations
var result = days + 'd ' + hours + ' h '+ mins+' min';
return result;
}
function(durations){
var timeArr = durations.split(':'); //["69","41","00"]
//your code
}
getHours is a method of object Date.
var t = new Date;
t.getHours();
How do you expect to get more than 24hours from a Date object? It is not the same as what you expect as Duration. Date is for points of time in calendar, so at most you'd get the 23:59:59 of any day. You can get date2 - date1 = milliseconds diff, and work on it, as following;
function FormatDuration(date1, date2) {
var milliseconds = date2 - date1;
var mins = Math.floor((milliseconds / (1000*60)) % 60);
var hours = Math.floor((milliseconds / (1000*60*60)) % 24);
var days = Math.floor(milliseconds / (1000*60*60*24));
var result = days + ' d ' + hours + ' h '+ mins + ' min';
console.log(result);
}
FormatDuration(new Date(2000, 5, 1, 5, 13, 0, 0),
new Date(2000, 5, 2, 15, 31, 0, 0))
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