Time and billing help

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instead of 7.5 . I am trying to make a simple database example to show
empoyee time tracking . I have
employeeid,emloyeename,starttime,luch,return,endtime as my fields.
Obviously, I want to make a formula (lunch-starttime)+(endtime-return) to
total the hours for the day. My problem is in the formatting. If a person
comes to work at 8:30 and lujch at 12 and returns at 1 and works till 5 .
That is 7 and a half hours . My answer comes out as 7.3 hrs if I format it as
time. If this were excel I know I could take the answer and multiply by 24
and take just the integers. It doesn't seem to work here. Any suggestions
would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Tom
 
Tom said:
I am trying to make a simple database example to show empoyee time
tracking .
I have employeeid,emloyeename,starttime,luch,return,endtime as my fields.
Obviously, I want to make a formula (lunch-starttime)+(endtime-return) to
total the hours for the day. My problem is in the formatting. If a person
comes to work at 8:30 and lujch at 12 and returns at 1 and works till 5 .
That is 7 and a half hours . My answer comes out as 7.3 hrs if I format it
as
time. If this were excel I know I could take the answer and multiply by 24
and take just the integers. It doesn't seem to work here. Any suggestions
would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Tom
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If you include your code someone can give definitive answers. We can't see
how you're doing the computation or what datatypes you're using.
 
Take a look at the VBA DateDiff function. And use that to calculate the total
minutes and then divide by 60. Your expression will look like:

(DateDiff("n",StartTime,Lunch) + DateDiff("n",Return,EndTime)) /60

John Spencer
Access MVP 2002-2005, 2007-2009
The Hilltop Institute
University of Maryland Baltimore County
 
That worked perfectly. Thanks for the help!

Tom
John Spencer said:
Take a look at the VBA DateDiff function. And use that to calculate the total
minutes and then divide by 60. Your expression will look like:

(DateDiff("n",StartTime,Lunch) + DateDiff("n",Return,EndTime)) /60

John Spencer
Access MVP 2002-2005, 2007-2009
The Hilltop Institute
University of Maryland Baltimore County
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