添加日期+时间而不是 12AM 移动到第二天

Question

I am using the attached to automate a time entry to go along with the date for a calendar import. The entries don't have times, and the staff will not enter them try as I might. I need to automate them to simplify the entry procedure.

The issue I am facing is that the Calendar API needs the data to be in DATE/TIME format. To do this I need to use the =DATE+TIME formula. When I do so and the time reaches 12:00AM, the dates thereafter change to the following day.

Essentially I need to either override the logic that makes it move into the next day after midnight appears, or I need to tell either the function in column BC that it can never roll to midnight. I am trying to think of perhaps a way that I can tell the function to reset the time if the date in column A changes to a new day, and if it doesn't change to a new day go ahead and use the existing function and add 5 minutes to the time that is shown previously to it.

I am stumped, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Here is a sheet to show you the issue

Here is the formula I tried, which worked to sort out the problem but did not work with the Calendar API requirements to format at DATE/TIME. Even when using the importrange formula to move the data into a new sheet with the cells formatted as DATE/TIME it still recognizes it as TEXT as this is what the formula prescribes.

=IF(A2<>"",(CONCATENATE(TEXT(A2,"MM/DD/YYYY")&" "&TEXT(B2,"HH:MM:SS"))),"")

I need this to work in both the sheet and in the import to Calendar using the Calendar API requirements through APPScript.

Answer 1

If I understood correctly your question, here a suggestion with a custom Apps Script function called like a normal Google Sheet function.

• Open Apps Script Editor and paste the function below
• Call the function rebuildDateTime(COL1, COL2) inside your spreadsheet

Spreadsheet:

Code:

function rebuildDateTime(arg0, arg1) {

  var date = new Date(arg0);
  var str = arg1.toString().split(':');
  date.setHours(str[0]);
  date.setMinutes(str[1]);

  return date;
} 

Warning:

• Your COL2 (which contains only the time), must be forced to TEXT FORMAT

References:

• Create a custom function