Select “Time Description” based on current date and time in Google Sheets (VLookup, Query)

Question

I am trying to use VLookup or QUERY to extract a day and time description based on the current date and time. I thought QUERY may be the b

Answer 1

based on your time data logic try:

=ARRAYFORMULA(IFERROR(TEXT(A2:A, "ffffdd ")&VLOOKUP(TIMEVALUE(A2:A), {
 TIMEVALUE("00:00"), "Evening";
 TIMEVALUE("07:00"), "Breakfast";
 TIMEVALUE("09:00"), "Morning";
 TIMEVALUE("16:00"), "Daytime";
 TIMEVALUE("20:00"), "Evening"}, 2, 1)))

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for non-hardcoded references use:

=ARRAYFORMULA(IFERROR(TEXT(A2:A, "ffffdd ")&VLOOKUP(TIMEVALUE(A2:A), 
 SORT({TIMEVALUE(REGEXEXTRACT(TimeDescription!A2:A, "(.*) -")), 
 TimeDescription!B2:B}, 1, 1), 2, 1)))

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