Displaying DateDiff from Hours and Minutes

[StanP]

Hello community,

I have an overtime calculation app which has Date + Time columns but I have removed the date and just left the Time with the default Hour + Minute controls in the Data Card.

Start and End of the overtime should be only hours and minutes , but I am having trouble validating the minutes and something is slipping my mind.

On another field I have the following :

DateDiff(Time(
Value(HourValue2.Selected.Value),
Value(MinuteValue2.Selected.Value),
0),Time(
Value(HourValue1.Selected.Value),
Value(MinuteValue1.Selected.Value),
0),Hours) & " " & "Hours" & " " & DateDiff(Time(
0,
Value(MinuteValue2.Selected.Value),
0),Time(
0,
Value(MinuteValue1.Selected.Value),
0),Minutes) & " " & "Minutes"

Which should display as X hours and Y minutes. The hour value is ok since you wont start an overtime before you end it so the calculation is fine. The minutes is what I m having issues with.

When the Start of the overt time is 13:30 and the End of the over time is 20:10 - it calculates it as 7 hours -20 minutes .

How could I validate the minutes so it calculates it without a negative value if the start minutes are more than the end minutes?

Thank you !

[WarrenBelz · Accepted solution]

Hi @StanP ,

This may work better

With(
   {
      wTime: 
      DateDiff(
         Time(
            Value(HourValue1.Selected.Value),
            Value(MinuteValue1.Selected.Value),
            0
         ),
         Time(
            Value(HourValue2.Selected.Value),
            Value(MinuteValue2.Selected.Value),
            0
         ),
         Minutes
      )
   },
   RoundDown(
      wTime / 60,
      0
   ) & " Hours," & 
   Mod(
      wTime,
      60
   ) & "Minutes"
)

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[StanP]

Thank you @WarrenBelz ,

Just one last question , what if I wanted to add the hours/minutes from another set of dropdown menus (hours and minutes) to the formulate , so I can get an additional calculation in a separate field to the one above.

So to calculate the end of overtime - start of overtime like you showed me and I want to add another time value of hours and minutes from an hour and minute dropdowns:

(The outcome of the formula that you posted) + hours and minutes from another hour hour/minute dropdown = in another field.

Thank you!

[WarrenBelz · Accepted solution]

Hi @StanP ,

Something like this

With(
   {
      wTime1: 
      DateDiff(
         Time(
            Value(HourValue1.Selected.Value),
            Value(MinuteValue1.Selected.Value),
            0
         ),
         Time(
            Value(HourValue2.Selected.Value),
            Value(MinuteValue2.Selected.Value),
            0
         ),
         Minutes
      ),
      wTime2: 
      DateDiff(
         Time(
            Value(HourValue3.Selected.Value),
            Value(MinuteValue3.Selected.Value),
            0
         ),
         Time(
            Value(HourValue4.Selected.Value),
            Value(MinuteValue4.Selected.Value),
            0
         ),
         Minutes
      )
   },
   RoundDown(
      (wTime + wTime2) / 60,
      0
   ) & " Hours," & 
   Mod(
      (wTime + wTime2),
      60
   ) & "Minutes"
)

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[StanP]

Thanks @WarrenBelz ,

I didn't explain my last question properly , apologies for that.

What I meant was - lets say I have 3 dropdowns - the 2 date time fields in your first response where I have to calculate the difference in the times - and I have another set of dropdowns (hours and minutes) which I have to add to the already calculated difference from timevalue1 and timevalue2 . It would be DateDiff(Timevalue1,TimeValue2) + TimeValue3(the dropdowns with hour and minutes added to the DateDiff) in another field difference from where we calculated the DateDiff

Thank you!

[WarrenBelz · Accepted solution]

@StanP ,

Probably something like this - note free-typed, so watch commas/brackets etc

With(
   {
      wTime1: 
      DateDiff(
         Time(
            Value(HourValue1.Selected.Value),
            Value(MinuteValue1.Selected.Value),
            0
         ),
         Time(
            Value(HourValue2.Selected.Value),
            Value(MinuteValue2.Selected.Value),
            0
         ),
         Minutes
      ),
      wTime2: 
      RoundDown(
         Value(HourValue3.Selected.Value),
         0
      ) * 60 + 
      Value(MinuteValue3.Selected.Value)
   },
   RoundDown(
      (wTime + wTime2) / 60,
      0
   ) & " Hours," & 
   Mod(
      (wTime + wTime2),
      60
   ) & "Minutes"
)

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[StanP]

Brilliant @WarrenBelz !