Questions tagged [google-sheets-timestamp]
Use for question about inserting a date, time or a date and time (timestamp) automatically into a Google spreadsheet.
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I have the formula I want to use but now sure how to change it with time another time zone
I have a formula setup that I want to use. But I have a separate sheet that I want to use in a different time zone. The one I have written is in EST. but I want another sheet to use the same formula ...
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Adding missing dates to Google Sheets
I'm pulling data from HubSpot to Google Sheets via 3rd party connector. I have a raw data set on Sheet 1 and then I'm pulling certain data from Sheet 1 to other Sheets with QUERY function.
For ...
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How to give a column a green border if the second row's holds a date = TODAY()?
I'm trying to make a useful schedule sheet to keep track of all of my class assignments:
I want to write a script in the script editor that says,
for(Column A-Z){
if(A2,B2,etc = TODAY()){
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How to sum amount with a criteria separately by day in Google Sheets?
I am using Google Sheets to track income and expenses. I have a separate file for each month and a master file to summarize each month.
The file for monthly account contains a couple of sheets - each ...
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How to make one cell automatically update a timestamp every time another referenced cell is updated? [duplicate]
I want to make a cell in my spreadsheet that updates a timestamp every time another cell is updated.
I have a SUMIF connected to a budget inflows/outflows tab in my spreadsheet and I want this cell ...
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Help needed with script that auto-updates cells in column in Google Spreadsheet showing last modify date
I'm looking for some help with a script for a spreadsheet.
I found a script (see below) that does half the trick for me, but I encounter two difficulties.
What I am trying to accomplish is the ...
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Google Sheets. Adding timestamps for multiple sheets in a workbook
Here is a copy of my current workbook
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1S7V4Gkgr_1DiP5sMQ3EWYffvRi4S0b-C7G0O6MGejY8/edit#gid=442994829
Right now i am using a script that performs a timestamp ...
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Google Sheets Pulling data between a specific date and time, from a timestamp
I am trying to pull specific data from a timestamp that I will be using in several pivot tables.
Here is my workbook https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iYHYdATK06Wxl-Jtxe2P92Kh50XEsWgwx5d-...
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Put Date in Specific Column
I found the following code in another post here to add a date after an edit but it places it in an offset column, I would like the date in Column 8 if column 3 or 4 has been edited.
What do I change?
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How to timestamp on new added cells in LIVE google spreadsheet?
The code below insert timestamp in google sheet by editing another column.
However, there an issue which I have no idea how to solve. When I add new row manually, it successfully adds timestamp, BUT ...
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How to automatically set date in a cell when a different cell value is changed by a formula from data on another sheet?
I currently have a column, e.g. ColB, containing SUMIF functions with its data range from other sheets and a column, e.g. ColC, with dates that I want to automatically update to the last date ColB's ...
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Function OnEdit run slow and timeout error
I have a short timestamp script for my google spreadsheet. But it run quite slow and make a lots
function onEdit(e) {
var TIMERECIEVE = [0,-29];
var DATETRECIEVE = [0,-28];
var DATEDONE = [0,-...
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Auto update of cells with timestamp
I'm new to writing/using scripts. I want to use something to allow for multiple cells to be updated and tracked for the last time they were modified. I've tried various different scripts on here but ...
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Timestamp format with carriage return
I have this time stamp format:
var timestamp_format = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss";
Which produced a result like:
5/25/2019 10:52:43
but I would like to have a carriage return between the date and time ...
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How do you get current date to be added to a cell when a check box is checked in another cell
I want to get the current date added into a cell when a tick box is checked in another cell.
I currently have another formula in the date cell which changes its colour when the tick box is checked, ...
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Two timestamps referencing different columns in one google sheet? [duplicate]
I'd like to have a timestamp occur in column 6 when an edit is made to column 1. But another timestamp to occur in column 6 when an edit is made to column 8. I would be open to having the 2nd ...
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How do I create multiple time zones by using the NOW formula?
I'm trying to create 5 cells with different time zones:
CDT MDT MST PDT EDT
I am in MST, so I obviously get my current time by doing
NOW()
How do I add hours to that? I tried
NOW()+(2,0,0)
But ...
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Inserting date automatically when a tick box is ticked
I have a simple sheet that has two columns with tick boxes in them (columns 5 and 8) The goal is when the box is ticked the date and time are inserted in the column next to it. I have got it working ...
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Google Spreadsheets timestamp
I'm trying to have a timestamp automatically appear in column L (12) in a Google Spreadsheet if a tick box is ticked on the same row (in column A). The app script code that I modified from this source ...
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Method to preserve cell reference in a formula upon adding rows in reference sheet?
I have a Google Sheets with two(2) tabs. The first sheet is just a running tally of raw data and is updated with new rows at the top weekly.
In tab 2 there is just a single query(arrayformula)... ...
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How do I get the count number of weekdays in a datetime column in Google Sheets?
I have a timestamp in mm/dd/yy hh:mm:ss format from January to March. How do I count "how many days are Monday" in the range of A1:A199? (Or How Many are Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday?
This gives me a ...
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Google Sheets adding weird number in 11th decimal place
Can anyone explain this?
I have 18 hardcoded numbers - that is, typed in, not as a result of a formula. [B1 thru B18]
I have a cell [D1] that sums those 18 numbers.
I have eleven other hardcoded ...
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Auto date insert when opposite cell is populated in different columns - only if in a particular sheet in a document
I found this solution to autoinclude the date in a column when another one is modified and it works great. Auto date insert when opposite cell is populated
What Im looking to do is:
To modify this ...
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Auto timestamp based on specific value
Currently, I am using below code to update timestamp in the next column. But I want to modify the code to update timestamp only when the cell value is True not on a change of cell value.
function ...
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Convert Text String into Date/Time Value
I'm fetching data into a Google Sheet. The date column contains multiple cells with the following text string pattern:
Mon Mar 11 19:05:32 +0000 2019
The pattern always repeat itself:
[day] [month] ...
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Auto update date in google sheets based on edit in range of cells [duplicate]
I want to update a timestamp based on the last time any cell in a range is updated.
I added this script:
function getDate() {
return new Date();
}
In a cell I use the formula:
=getDate(D5:AF5)
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How to date/timestamp for modifications in Google Sheets?
I have a sheet that has information in 8 columns starting in row 14. I would like I14:I310 to date stamp anytime there is an update in the corresponding row. I have tried a couple of different ways ...
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How to print the first modified date of a cell
I would like to make a script that works like this script to print a timestamp when a cell was last updated but in this case I want to return when it was first updated, not last.
Here is one attempt:...
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Timestamping purchase entries
I’ve created myself a budget tracker where I can track what I bought and how much I spent across a few categories. I specified column B (purchase entries are rows) to be the date and time at which I ...
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Can I record the users within a Google sheet?
I'd like to have an auto-generated list of users with timestamps within a spreadsheet, tabs, or if possible specific cells.
Ideally, once a cell has been altered, I'd like another cell to record the ...
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timestamp for specific value change in different column
I want an automatic timestamp to appear in column D ('Receive Date') when the value in column B ('Status') is changed to 'Received'. I have the script below, but it inserts a timestamp regardless of ...
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Formula for dates in Google sheets doesn't work when static time included
I'm trying to make a formula that takes a date formatted like this
"10/7" and will spit out the date 3 days before it.
So I make a formula
=C79-3
and that spits out the date. However, I also ...
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How to calculate hours per date
I am trying to use A Google Sheet generated by Google Forms to track total attendance time in lab for a robotics team. I have created a form with the following questions:
Checking in or Checking out
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Change COUNTIF range based on the current day of the week, with 3 days using the same dataset
I work as a delivery driver and have been futzing around trying to create a google sheet that automatically updates with the current day's drops. However, there is a rub with the data set. The ...
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2 timestamps in different cells at the same time [duplicate]
function onEdit(event)
{
var timezone = "GMT-7";
var timestamp_format = "MM-dd-yyyy-hh:mm"; // Timestamp Format.
var updateColName = "Ext Warehouse";
var timeStampColName = "Date/Time Change";...
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How to extend script on next column?
How should I modify the script, in a way that it would work also in another column, eg. by putting data in A:A date will be printed in B:B and also in C:C
function onEdit() {
var sheetName = "...
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Timestamp for Edits Made to 1 Cell Only
I have this script that works perfectly for any edit on the spreadsheet page:
function onEdit(e) {
if (!e.value) return;
e.source.getActiveSheet()
.getRange('F29')
.setValue(new ...
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Auto-updating timestamp [duplicate]
In a particular cell of a column, I would like to have a timestamp of the last date any cell of that column was modified.
Specifically: G31 would show a date of last modification on any cell of the G ...
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How to add a date to a cell next to an cell with an imported value
In column A I have a value added each day from the tab/cell TOTAL/A1 by this script:
function dailyLog() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sourceSheet = ss.getSheetByName('...
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Locking the value of TODAY() [duplicate]
I have two columns in my spreadsheet, A and B. In column A I would like to add the date the corresponding row's value in B was added. I'm thinking something along =IF(ISBLANK(B2),"",TODAY()). The ...
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Make function only work on first sheet, not in whole Google Sheets file
I have the following code which is for tracking the date of any edit made in a particular row. However, this code applies to the whole spreadsheet file, I would like to change this to be for the 1st ...
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Pasting timestamp for edits by multiple users in Google Sheets
I got a good Google Sheet script for pasting a time stamp at the designated column of the same row on editing any cells of another particular column. Here it is On Edit of column 11: timestamp is to ...
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Put the timestamp of last edit on master sheet, next to edited sheet's name
I'm trying to come up with a script that will print a timestamp of the last edit made to a specific tab within a google sheet. Imagine you have 17 retail stores, each one having its own tab with a set ...
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Counting timestamp considering time and date
How do I count timestamp considering both date and time range?For example, I want to count how many cells are within 2/14/2018 22:00 to 2/15/2018 1:00.
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Google spreadsheets: How to get average session per user instead of all users?
In google spreadsheets I'm trying to get the average session per user from Google Analytics, so I tried ga:avgSessionDuration on metrics, ga:date in dimensions, it returned me the time in seconds, so ...
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How can I stop Google Sheets charts from rounding down durations?
I've got a Google Sheets chart that displays the average pace of a day's rowing machine workouts (e.g. average the time to row 500m).
It looks like this:
The Query I'm using to get the data is this: ...
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Google script to delete on condition
I'm trying to fix a script for a Google Spreadsheet, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J3VRBXkx5B3p1fmrVpkI3Y6F5EGns9Vao7FyxOQsSVo/edit?usp=sharing
I wrote to following:
function ...
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Show a time-stamp in one cell when another cell is updated in Google Sheets
I want to time stamp when a cell was filled out in the column to the right of only certain columns. We use a simple spread sheet to keep inventory and I'd like to know when someone takes something or ...
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Create fresh duplicate of Master Google Sheet on a daily basis
I'm trying to hack together a paperless data-entry solution for my company using Google Sheets. Basically, our employees are required to fill out daily logs on paper. Needless to say, this is ...
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Update a timestamp in a cell only when specific text is entered in another cell
Looking for a timestamp to be created in Google Sheets in cell B2 based on the text "Loading-Outside" being entered into cell A2. I know the below script will work for any edit made to the cell, but ...
