Phpspreadsheet - Time cell retrieved as float

Question

I have an excel file which has a time input.

  Mar 01, 2018  | Thursday  | 8:00 AM | 5:00 PM
  Mar 02, 2018  | Friday    | 8:00 AM | 5:00 PM

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Answer 1

Formart the data before you read it.

For example:

cell data 2020/10/13 19:00:00

Access directly will get 44117.791666667

$sheet->toArray();

Format before access will get 2020-10-13 19:00:00

$row_num = $sheet->getHighestDataRow();
$sheet->getStyle("H1:H$row_num")->applyFromArray(array("numberFormat"=>array("formatCode"=>'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss'))); // H is the datatime row
$sheet->toArray();

Answer 2

Thankfully I have found the answer just now.

$in = \PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Shared\Date::excelToTimestamp($time_in);
echo gmdate("g:i a", $in);

Hopefully, this could be useful for others.