Gnumeric supports a wide variety of date and time formatting.
These formats can be used to convert an existing time serial number into a new more readable format, or dates can be entered in these formats and Gnumeric will automatically convert them to a serial number with the proper cell format. See the section called Dates and Numbers in Chapter 1 for more information.
In Example 3-3 'd' is a day, 'm' is a month, 'y' is a year, 'h' is an hour, and 's' is a second.
Example 3-3. Date and Time Formatting.
Date Format Sample Serial number 36068.7 m/d/yyyy 10/1/1998 d-mmm-yy 1-Oct-98 d-mmm-yyyy 1-Oct-1998 d-mmm 1-Oct d-mm 1-10 mmm/d Oct/1 mm/d 10/1 mm/dd/yy 10/01/98 mm/dd/yyyy 10/01/1998 mmm/dd/yy Oct/01/98 mmm/dd/yyyy Oct/01/1998 mmm/ddd/yy Oct/Thu/98 mmm/ddd/yyyy 10/01/1998 mm/ddd/yy 10/Thu/98 mm/ddd/yyyy 10/Thu/1998 mmm-yy Oct-98 mmm-yyyy Oct-1998 m/d/yy h:mm 10/1/98 16:48 m/d/yyyy h:mm 10/1/1998 16:48 Time Format Sample Serial number 36068.7 h:mm:ss AM/PM 4:51 PM h:mm:ss AM/PM 4:51:18 PM h:mm 16:51 h:mm:ss 16:51:18 m/d/yy h:mm 10/1/98 16:51 mm:ss 10:18 mm:ss.0 10:1836068.7 [h]:mm:ss :10:18 |