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Challenge #10: Date Time Calculations

mceleavey
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Hi @Kirstyp,

If you have converted your two date fields to actual datetime format using the date parse tool, you can build a formula using datetimediff(datetimeA,datetimeB,"minutes") which will give you the difference between the two regardless of whether it goes over to the next day.



Bulien

Kirstyp
8 - Asteroid

Great, thanks very much for your help.

PhilipMannering
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

Solution attached.

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dheerajpoojari
7 - Meteor

Attached solution with one formula field(3 formulae)

jamielaird
14 - Magnetar

Here's my solution.

 

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Natasha
9 - Comet

 

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Used MOD function as well

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JacobR77
8 - Asteroid

Close but no cigar for me. Didn't know about the modulo function so used Floor instead, which got me close but not 100%.

BenMoss
ACE Emeritus
ACE Emeritus

This one was good, never had a usecase for the MOD function before so was handy to get some practice with this.

 

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patrick_digan
17 - Castor
17 - Castor
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Just used a bunch of datetimediff functions and subtracted the parts.
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MaxGiegerich
8 - Asteroid

I find the solution provided here quite confusing and requires a great deal of unpicking. Mine I find intuitive (but then I would I suppose...). For each subdivision:

  • Add the previous subdivision(s) to the timestamp
  • Take a datetimediff between the TIMESTAMP and the new Time_Now.

Done.