Shifts that run past midnight
Work out the hours of a shift that ends after midnight with MOD, in one formula that works for day and night shifts.
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=(end-start)*24goes negative for a shift that ends after midnight.- The same result with IF:
=IF(end<start,end+1-start,end-start)*24. =MOD(number, divisor)is the remainder of a division:=MOD(7,3)is 1, and=MOD(-0.25,1)is 0.75.
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