📅 Understanding Date & Time Functions in Excel
Excel provides a comprehensive set of Date & Time functions that allow users to manipulate, format, and extract information from dates and times. These functions are useful for scheduling, data analysis, and automation tasks.
📌 What Are Date & Time Functions?
Date & Time functions in Excel help users manage dates and times efficiently. Whether you need to find the current date, calculate differences between two dates, or extract the day, month, or year, these functions make the process seamless.
🔹 Common Date & Time Functions
- TODAY(): Returns the current date.
- NOW(): Returns the current date and time.
- DATE(year, month, day): Creates a date from individual values.
- TIME(hour, minute, second): Creates a time from individual values.
- YEAR(date): Extracts the year from a date.
- MONTH(date): Extracts the month from a date.
- DAY(date): Extracts the day from a date.
- HOUR(time): Extracts the hour from a time.
- MINUTE(time): Extracts the minutes from a time.
- SECOND(time): Extracts the seconds from a time.
- DAYS(end_date, start_date): Returns the number of days between two dates.
- EDATE(start_date, months): Returns a date that is a specified number of months before or after the given date.
- EOMONTH(start_date, months): Returns the last day of the month for a specified number of months before or after the given date.
- TEXT(date, format_text): Formats a date or time into a specific text format.
⚡ Why Use Date & Time Functions?
Date & Time functions allow users to automate data entry, track important deadlines, and analyze trends over specific time periods. They are especially useful for businesses, financial calculations, and project management.
📖 Learn More
Want to explore more Excel functions and formulas? Check out our detailed guide: Excel Functions and Formulas.
