How to use the MINUTE function
Author: Oscar Cronquist Article last updated on April 19, 2018
Returns a whole number representing the minute based on an Excel time value. The returned number is ranging from 0 to 59.
Formula in cell C3:
=MINUTE(B3)
Excel Function Syntax
MINUTE(serial_number)
Arguments
| serial_number | Required. An Excel time value that you want to extract the minute from. |
Comments
Excel time (serial_number) is actually a number ranging between 0 and 1 in Excel and then formatted as time.
Example, 12:00 PM is represented as 0.5 because it is half of a day, you can verify this by typing 12:00 PM in a cell and then change the cell formatting to general.
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Functions in this article
Functions in 'Date and Time' category
The MINUTE function function is one of many functions in the 'Date and Time' category.
Returns a number that acts as a date in the Excel environment.
Returns the number of days, months, or years between two dates. The DATEDIF function exists in order to ensure compatibility with Louts 1-2-3.
Returns an Excel date value (serial number) based on a date stored as text.
Extracts the day as a number from an Excel date.
Calculates the number of days between two dates.
Returns a date determined by a start date and a number representing how many months.
Returns an Excel date for the last day of a given month using a number and a start date.
Returns an integer representing the hour of an Excel time value.
Returns a whole number representing the minute based on an Excel time value. The returned number is ranging from 0 to 59.
Extracts the month as a number from an Excel date.
Returns the number of working days between two dates, excluding weekends. It also allows you to ignore a list of holiday dates that you can specify.
Calculates the number of working days between two dates, excluding weekends.
Returns the current date and time.
Returns an integer representing the second based on an Excel time value
Returns a decimal value between 0 (zero) representing 12:00:00 AM and 0.99988426 representing 11:59:59 P.M.
Returns a decimal number based on a text string.
Returns the Excel date (serial number) of the current date.
Converts a date to a weekday number from 1 to 7.
Calculates a given date's week number based on a return_type parameter that determines which day the week begins.
Returns a date based on a start date and a given number of working days (nonweekend and nonholidays).
Converts a date to a number representing the year in the date.
Returns the fraction of the year based on the number of whole days between a start date and an end date.
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Functions for backward compatibility with earlier Excel versions. Compatibility functions are replaced with newer functions with improved accuracy. Use the new functions if compatibility isn't required.
Perform basic operations to a database-like structure.
Functions that let you perform calculations to Excel date and time values.
Let's you manipulate binary numbers, convert values between different numeral systems, and calculate imaginary numbers.
Calculate present value, interest, accumulated interest, principal, accumulated principal, depreciation, payment, price, growth, yield for securities, and other financial calculations.
Functions that let you get information from a cell, formatting, formula, worksheet, workbook, filepath, and other entitites.
Functions that let you return and manipulate logical values, and also control formula calculations based on logical expressions.
These functions let you sort, lookup, get external data like stock quotes, filter values based a condition or criteria, and get the relative position of a given value in a specific cell range. They also let you calculate row, column, and other properties of cell references.
You will find functions in this category that calculates random values, round numerical values, create sequential numbers, trigonometry, and more.
Calculate distributions, binomial distributions, exponential distribution, probabilities, variance, covariance, confidence interval, frequency, geometric mean, standard deviation, average, median, and other statistical metrics.
Functions that let you manipulate text values, substitute strings, find string in value, extract a substring in a string, convert characters to ANSI code among other functions.
Get data from the internet, extract data from an XML string and more.
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