How to add time/hours together in Excel VBA?”
Dim date1 as Date
Now we can pass a date to this variable as
date1 = "11/03/2020"
But we can also pass the time along with date which will be saved in the variable type :
date1 = "11/03/2020 4:53pm"
Now we want to add hours to this variable which has got the date and time together
Suppose we want to add 1 hour to date1, we cannot directly add it like:
Date1 = date1 + 1
which is not correct.
So we are using the following function and sub for the same:
Private Sub TestIt() MsgBox AddHour("06/10/15 4:53pm") End Sub Public Function AddHour(ByVal sTime As String) As String Dim dt As Date dt = CDate(sTime) dt = DateAdd("h", 1, dt) AddHour = Format(dt, "mm/dd/yy h:nnam/pm") End Function
In this function we are declaring the variable dt as date and then the value “06/10/15 4:53pm” is passed to this variable from the sub.
This function used an inbuilt function Dateadd to add 1 hour and then the result is formatted as the input format.
We can also use another simple way:
Sub test2() s = "06/10/15 4:53pm" MsgBox CDate(s) + 1 / 24 End Sub
It will also give the same result.
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Further reading: Basic concepts Getting started with Excel Cell References