Create your own formula to convert the degrees, minutes and seconds used in geography to a decimal number. DMS map coordinates consist of whole number degrees that are divided into 60 minutes.

Trying to use an Excel Date and Time function, but Excel returns a serial number instead of date; this is because Excel stores dates and times in serial numbers in the backend; for instance, when ...

So the serial number 1 in Windows Excel equals 1/1/1900, 12:00 am, while in Mac Excel it’s 1/2/1904, 12:00 am. Seems like Microsoft should have fixed this by now, but it’s still a problem.

When calculating time intervals in Excel, ... as it will appear as a number, so you need to convert the format of the output cell to correctly display a time.