When you enter a date string, Excel formats it as a date using the date format, d-mmm-yy. Figure A The date is an integer; time is a decimal value. A day equals 24 hours.

Like Microsoft Excel, you can change the formatting of date and time in Google Sheets as well. For that, select the cell where the date/time is visible, go to Format > Number, and select ...

How to add a third column to sort in Excel There are very few repeated dates, but there are a few repeated months. Let’s create a new custom sort on three columns: Date, Personnel and Region.