Converting US date to UK format in Excel

Question

I am currently pulling out US date from another spreadsheet using the following formula

=LEFT(IFERROR(VLOOKUP(A:A,'Token Report 2'!A:C,2,FALSE),""),16)

which gets me the following:

04/23/2014 23:04

from

04/23/2014 23:04 CDT

How do I get it to convert it to a UK date/time and get it to register with Excel?

Answer 1

Add 5 hours to go from CDT to GMT.

=VALUE(LEFT(A1,16))+5/24, where `A1' hold the text, will give you the correct date and time value. You'll need to format the cell to display properly as a date and time, or convert it to text explicitly (not usually recommended).

So =VALUE(LEFT(IFERROR(VLOOKUP(A:A,'Token Report 2'!A:C,2,FALSE),""),16))+5/24.

Answer 2

You can use Excel's text-to-column function. I'm copying the answer from here

1. Paste the dates into a column in a new Excel spreadsheet
2. Select the whole column
3. Select the Data menu > Text to Columns
4. Choose “Delimited” and click next
5. Untick all Delimiters and click next
6. Select the dropdown menu format “Date: MDY” and click Finish