HOUR

Office Components Spreadsheet Function

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HOUR

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Returns the hour of a time value. The hour is given as an integer, ranging from 0 (12:00 A.M.) to 23 (11:00 P.M.).

Syntax

HOUR(serial_number)

Serial_number   is the time that contains the hour you want to find. Times may be entered as text strings within quotation marks (for example, "6:45 PM"), as decimal numbers (for example, 0.78125, which represents 6:45 PM), or as results of other formulas or functions (for example, TIMEVALUE("6:45 PM")).

Remark

Time values are a portion of a date value and represented by a decimal number (for example, 12:00 PM is represented as 0.5 because it is half of a day).

Example

The example may be easier to understand if you copy it to a blank spreadsheet.

How?

Time
3:30:30 AM
3:30:30 PM
15:30
Formula Description (Result)
=HOUR(A2) Hour of first time (3)
=HOUR(A3) Hour of second time (15)
=HOUR(A4) Hour of third time (15)