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

If you have =NOW() in A2, this formula should work without any additional tabs or descriptions...

Apologies, i'd originally Missed the necessity of the day of the week as well. This should work. Again, just with NOW() in A2 and nothing else on the sheet.

=ARRAYFORMULA(JOIN(" ",VLOOKUP(MOD(A2,{7,1}),SORT({{{7;9;16;20}/24;SEQUENCE(7,1,0)},{"Breakfast";"Morning";"Daytime";"Evening";TEXT(SEQUENCE(7,1,0),"ffffdd")}}),2)))

Answer 2

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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