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# Date and Time formatting

Gnumeric supports a wide variety of date and time formatting.

These formats can be used to convert an existing time serial number into a new more readable format, or dates can be entered in these formats and Gnumeric will automatically convert them to a serial number with the proper cell format. See the Section called Dates and Numbers in Chapter 2 for more information.

In Example 5-3 'd' is a day, 'm' is a month, 'y' is a year, 'h' is an hour, and 's' is a second.

Example 5-3. Date and Time Formatting.

        Date
            Format                     Sample
       Serial number		36068.7
       m/d/yyyy	        	10/1/1998
       d-mmm-yy		        1-Oct-98
       d-mmm-yyyy		        1-Oct-1998
       d-mmm		        1-Oct
       d-mm		                1-10
       mmm/d		        Oct/1
       mm/d		                10/1
       mm/dd/yy		        10/01/98
       mm/dd/yyyy		        10/01/1998
       mmm/dd/yy		        Oct/01/98
       mmm/dd/yyyy		        Oct/01/1998
       mmm/ddd/yy		        Oct/Thu/98
       mmm/ddd/yyyy		        10/01/1998
       mm/ddd/yy		        10/Thu/98
       mm/ddd/yyyy		        10/Thu/1998
       mmm-yy		        Oct-98
       mmm-yyyy		        Oct-1998
       m/d/yy h:mm		        10/1/98 16:48
       m/d/yyyy h:mm                10/1/1998 16:48

    Time

          Format                     Sample
      Serial number		       36068.7
      h:mm:ss AM/PM		       4:51 PM
      h:mm:ss AM/PM		       4:51:18 PM
      h:mm		               16:51
      h:mm:ss		       16:51:18
      m/d/yy h:mm		       10/1/98 16:51
      mm:ss		               10:18
      mm:ss.0		       10:1836068.7
      [h]:mm:ss		       :10:18

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