Hola to All!
I am using LO Version: 5.0.3.2 on Mint Linux. I have struggled for two days with this and cannot find a solution through tons of trial-and-error, or in any online help.
Here are two Calc field contents I am importing from two different external resources that I cannot change the format of:
“127.0.0.1 - - [26/Jan/2016:14:33:07]” and “t=2016-02-06T09:30:08”
The goal is to be able to do a time/date difference comparison between these two cells, as well as being able to sort them.
I am doing a ‘mid’ string function on the first to grab the “26/Jan/2016:14:33:07” date and time string, and in the second one doing a ‘mid’ and ‘right’ function to get two strings w/o the “T”, and then using concatenation to stitch them together.
But no matter what cell date/time formats I use, what format I set as system “default” in the options, I cannot come up with a solution to come up with a common date and time in one cell that the system will recognize as valid. I prefer not to have two columns, one for date and one for time as that would probably add a huge amount of complexity to sorting and doing calculations on.
Can it be done in one system recognizable format (sorts properly) like: 02/06/2016 15:10:43?
I am not sure that will sort correctly, but some of the cell formats, using datevalue() show that format.
But I cannot even come up with a conversion process that will directly give me kind of date/time format.
Am I barking up the wrong tree with this approach? Any ideas?
Thanks!
Monty
