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Power Query Time difference between two dates/times columns excluding holidays
Hi,
I have a custom column in query editor that shows the difference in HOURS of two date/time columns however I did not exclude weekends & holidays.
For this particular dataset, the time calculations has already been created by my colleague (which excludes weekends/holidays) However, his script is in Microsoft Access. I would like to convert his script to power query.
Is it possible to replicate his logic below in power query? Appreciate any help.
Function CalcHours(STdate As String, STHour As String, EDdate As String, EDHour As String, Etype As String) As Long
Dim StartDate As Date
Dim EndDate As Date
Dim x As Long
Dim y As Long
Dim SStop As Boolean
'' **************** Function to calculate the number of hours between 2 event times ****************
SStop = 0
'' ********* Check to see if the time variables have data ********************
If Not IsNull(STdate) And Not IsNull(EDdate) And EDdate <> "" And STdate <> "" Then
' Convert string data to Date and Time data
StartDate = CDate(STdate & " " & STHour)
EndDate = CDate(EDdate & " " & EDHour)
x = 0
Debug.Print StartDate, EndDate '' Output to immediate window
Do While StartDate < EndDate And Not SStop
'' Loop through until the start date and time = the end date and time
StartDate = StartDate + #1:00:00 AM# '' Increment the start date variable by one hour
y = ChkNonWork(StartDate, EndDate, Etype)
x = x + y
If x > 1000 Then
SStop = True
'' Set a trap for an unresolvable loop
End If
Loop
Else
'' If no data set hours = 0
x = 0
End If
CalcHours = x
End Function
'' *************************************************************************************************************************************
Function ChkNonWork(SDate As Date, Edate As Date, Etype As String) As Long
Dim n As Long
'' ** Check if the date is a weekend or a public holiday, if true remove the hour increment.
n = 1
'Debug.Print Weekday(SDate)
If Weekday(SDate) = 1 Then
n = 0
End If
If is_Pub_Hol(SDate) Then
n = 0
End If
If Weekday(SDate) = 7 And Etype <> "Delivery" And SDate = Edate Then
'' Where the event is delivery allow hour increment for Saturday
n = 0
End If
ChkNonWork = n
End Function
Hello
I've now adapted the function. has a 3rd parameter that requires a list of days that are representing the holidays
(StartTime as datetime, EndTime as datetime, ListHoliday as nullable list) as number => let //StartTime = #datetime(2019,12,3,8,00,00), //EndTime = #datetime(2019, 12, 8, 8, 0, 0), //ListHoliday = {"03.12.19", "04.12.19"}, ListHolidayCheck = if ListHoliday = null then {} else ListHoliday, ListHolidayInternal = List.Transform(ListHolidayCheck, each Date.From(_)), DurationInHours = (Number.From(EndTime)-Number.From(StartTime))*24, DateTimesFromStartEnd = List.DateTimes(StartTime, DurationInHours, #duration(0,1,0,0)), FilterHolidays = List.Transform(DateTimesFromStartEnd, each if List.Contains(ListHolidayInternal, Date.From(_))= true then null else _), TableWithDateTime = #table({"DateTime"}, List.Zip({FilterHolidays})), #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(TableWithDateTime, "Hours", each 1), #"Inserted Day of Week" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Custom", "Day of Week", each Date.DayOfWeek([DateTime], Day.Monday), Int64.Type), #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Inserted Day of Week", each ([Day of Week] < 5)), HoursSum = List.Sum(#"Filtered Rows"[Hours]) in HoursSumhave fun
Jimmy
- Anonymous6 years ago
Jimmy801 thank you for this, much appreciated. Will have a go at creating this into my query model and let you know if I have any issues. If no issues, I will mark this post as 'Accepted Solution'
- Anonymous6 years ago
Jimmy801 yes that worked with the following edit
=try fxHoursBetweenDates([startdatetim], [endtdatetime], null) otherwise -99
Thank you for your help and patience, much appreciated:)
@Jimmy801 yes that worked with the following edit
=try fxHoursBetweenDates([startdatetim], [endtdatetime], null) otherwise -99
Thank you for your help and patience, much appreciated:)
28 Replies
- Jimmy801
Community Champion
Hello
try something like this. This excludes hours on sunday
(StartTime as datetime, EndTime as datetime) as number => let //StartTime = #datetime(2019,12,3,8,00,00), //EndTime = #datetime(2019, 12, 8, 8, 0, 0), DurationInHours = (Number.From(EndTime)-Number.From(StartTime))*24, TableWithDateTime = #table({"DateTime"}, List.Zip({List.DateTimes(StartTime, DurationInHours, #duration(0,1,0,0))})), #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(TableWithDateTime, "Hours", each 1), #"Inserted Day of Week" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Custom", "Day of Week", each Date.DayOfWeek([DateTime], Day.Monday), Int64.Type), #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Inserted Day of Week", each ([Day of Week] <> 6)), HoursSum = List.Sum(#"Filtered Rows"[Hours]) in HoursSumhave fun
Jimmy
- AnonymousNot applicable
Jimmy801 thank you for the prompt response. Before I create this in power query, just have couple of questions:
1. how do I exclude Saturdays?
2. how do I exclude my country's national public holidays? do I need to create a table?
- Jimmy801
Community Champion
Hello
to exclude also saturadays change the row like this
#"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Inserted Day of Week", each ([Day of Week] <5)),Excatly, you would have to feed the function a list with dates that have to be filtered as well
Have fun
Jimmy
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