Use either keyboard shortcuts or the NOW and TODAY functions to display the current date and time in Excel and Google Sheets spreadsheets together.

As you create Excel spreadsheets for your small business, time and date functions frequently add both convenience and programming capability to your workbooks. There's good news with date functions.

How Date and Time Serial Numbers Are Generated in Excel The serial numbers for dates in all modern versions of Microsoft Excel start at 1 for January 1, 1900, increasing with each subsequent day.

If you have to work with a date stamp in Microsoft Excel that includes date and time, you can use these simple expressions to extract both components, making them easier to work with.