which returns the time portion of the value in B5, 1:00 PM. The MOD function returns the remainder from division. The first argument is the number and the second is the divisor. Here are a few examples: If you use MOD with a divisor of 1, the result will be the decimal part of the number, if any, because every whole number can be evenly divided by itself. For example: In short, =MOD(number,1) returns just the fractional part of a number, discarding the integer portion, so it’s a convenient way to extract time from a date. Note: if you use this formula to strip the time from a date + time, you’ll need to apply a suitable number format to display as time.
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