Converting time stamps in excel to dates

Question

I have a very large excel spread sheet that has a column of time stamps. Does anyone know convert that over to a date? Is there a function I can use? I tried format cell dat

Answer 1

A timestamp is the elapsed time since Epoch time (01/01/1970), so basically we have to convert this time in days, and add the epoch time, to get a valid format for any Excel like spreadsheet software.

• From a timestamp in milliseconds (ex: 1488380243994)

  use this formula:

  =A1/1000/86400+25569
  

  with this formater:

  yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss.000
  

• From a timestamp in seconds (ex: 1488380243)

  use this formula:

  =A1/86400+25569
  

  with this formater:

  yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss
  

Where A1 is your column identifier. Given custom formaters allow to not loose precision in displayed data, but you can of course use any other date/time one that corresponds to your needs.