Working with time format in Numbers

I am trying to subtract sunset time from sunrise time to determine length of daylight. When I imported data from an excel spreadsheet, the column I had the difference did not transfer correctly. I have tried unsuccessfully to subtract a sunset time, say for example 18:03 from a sunrise time, 6:18. Is there anyway to do that in Numbers?

As you are asking in the iWork '08 forum, I respond for Numbers '08.
(a) all these kinds of things are explained in "What you wanted to know about time values"
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7958365
(b) assuming that
B2 contains 18:03
C2 contains 06:18
in D2 type the simple formula: =TIME(0,0,(B-C)24*6060)
with Numbers '09 it would be even more simple: =B-C
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 11 février 2009 20:29:16)

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Henry

In any spreadsheet I would suggest working with decimal value representations of the actual data for finding Deviations etc... just make a column that can be hidden after you've gotten your formulas figured out. Base your formulas on those numbers and convert back into your preferred format for the final answers.
Hope this gives you some ideas,
Jason

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I want to compare the time of a variable datetime type with a simple constant time value to see if the time of the variable occurs before or after the time constant. If I do the following in a PL/SQL declaration block: ref_time CONSTANT TIMESTAMP := TO_DATE('12:34','hh24:mi');If the current date is 27-May-2010, I get the resultant value of ref_time = 27-May-2010 12:34. Now when I want to compare this value with a time from a different day, say 28-May-2010 10:45, the comparison will be greater than the ref time because the day is later no matter what the time is.
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DBelt wrote:
... I think I may go with option 2 to use a string constant for reference. I really don't care much for using strings to compare non-string entities (for instance '2' > '10' when comparing strings) but in this case, the values can be controlled so that the comparisons will be correct ('02' < '10'). I agree completely.
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                                , '999999999'
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