Find yourself trying to decipher your Cisco CDR exports? Your not alone. I’ve got to give credit to some folks who helped me out – especially since I’m using Excel for MAC 2011.

Found this on Blindhog.net – smart guys!

Are you using Excel for MAC 2011 and find your year is off by 3?
You actually need to change the hack digits at the end of your formula from 25569 to 24107.
Check out this link.

Also, I was struggling with getting my human date and time to match that on www.epochconverter.com using the formulas above. It was off by 3 or 4 minutes. I found that if I removed the outermost set of parenthesis, then my formula actually matched the exact minute, as verified in the picture below.

 

 

 

Hope this helps some of you out rather quickly. Enjoy.
BTW, using the eastern time formula above, I was still off a little, so I simply added another hour (4*3600).

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