If you have in a cell with date and time (like the use of the NOW function) it's easy to split them with these 2 techniques.
- With FORMULAE
- With POWER QUERY
How to split the date with formulas?
Let's start from the following document where you have in column A Date & Time

We want to split
- The date in column B
- And the time in column C
To perform this separation, we must keep in mind that 1 represents 1 day.
Time is a fraction of a day, for example, 0.33333 is 8 hours (1/3 of a day). Have a look at this article about the Date and Time format.
Step 1: Extract only the date
So, to extract the date, you just have insert your value in column A in the INT function.
=INT(A2)

INT means integer, so you extract the whole part of the cell in column A. And the whole number is the date (the decimal part is the time).
It is possible that you need to change the format of the column B to display the format 'Date'.
Step 2: Extract the time
To extract the time, simply subtract the data in column A with the entire value calculated in column B.
=A2-B2

Again, it is possible that you have to change the format of the column C to display the cell format to 'Time'
And the final result is

How to split a date with Power Query?
With Power Query, the techniques is more simple. Let's start with these dates embedded in a Table.
Step 1: Load your dates to Power Query
Once your data are in a Table, you can load them to Power Query with the menu Data > From Table / Range

And then, in Power Query, you can visualise your data in Power Query

Step 2: Change the type of your data
As you can see on the header, you have the symbol ABC/123. That means Power Query consider your data as "Any" ; not a text, not a date, not a number.

It's compulsory to change the type of your data to Date & Time

And then, the type of the data of your column is now "Date/Time" and the pictogram isn't the same

Step 3: Extract Date
Once the type of your data is Date and Time, it's very easy to extract the Date.
- Tab Add Column
- Then Date
- And finally Date Only

And the result is amazing; a new column with only the date

Step 4: Extract Time
Here, the technique is as simple as the previous step
- Select the column with Date and Time first
- Then, select the tab Add Column
- And Sub-Menu Time
- Finally, Time Only

And now, you have another column with the Time only

18 comments
Does not work for me. I get a VALUE error
It's certainly because the content of your cell is not a date.
You can check that with this logical test = ISNUMBER(A1)
Hey I want to seperate * 02/02/2020 03:00 AM - 03:59 AM this format into 2 seperate column date and time
If you want the time to be separated, use -
=TIME(HOUR(A2),MINUTE(A2), SECOND(A2))
This will separate the time. and then for date, copy the date-time column and paste it, and change the format to only show the date
13-11-2019 09:04:37
help me split this into date and time separately please
That's what the article describe
it wont work. its eastern date format. when the day value is less than or equal to 12 this method works in dd-mm-yyyy format. We need a work around guys.
--RK
It should, or in your cell you have Text and not a date
Thanks a lot Buddy 🙂
hi i am getting error ( #VALUE!) while applying INT
Sample given below
Actual Pickup Time
06-19-2017 22:39
06-12-2017 20:22
It's because the contained of the cells are text and not date. Try one of your date +1 ; you will return an error too.
The column with dates and time, has text and number . Tried INT unsuccessfully
Contract Creation Date
3/10/2018
5/10/2018
29/01/2018 11:06:47
31/01/2018 11:06:28
10/7/2017
20/12/2018 12:33:33
31/05/2018 15:30:17
17/09/2018 12:13:19
12/2/2018
12/3/2018
26/02/2018 13:10:03
29/03/2017 16:12:13
5/8/2017
11/8/2017
31/01/2018 17:15:02
Hi there,
I tried doing this with date/time cells in this format, 2018-11-15 17:09:42 PST, and all I get is #VALUE. I changed the cell from text to number, and nothing changed. I have 2600+ cells to change, and don't relish having to do it one-by-one. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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