Macro to calculate the difference in hh:mm:ss - vba

Question

I want to calculate the difference in hh:mm:ss between Now and column E. They both appear in format dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm. With the code I have written below, it only takes into consideration the hh:mm and not the days. So, if they have 2 days difference in wont add to the hours +48. The code is below:
With ws1.Range("N2:N" & lastrow1)
.Formula = "=TIME(HOUR(NOW()),MINUTE(NOW()),SECOND(NOW()))-TIME(HOUR(E2),MINUTE(E2),SECOND(32))"
End With

Answer 1

Just use =(NOW()-E2) and apply a custom format [hh]:mm:ss. The brackets around hh will do the trick.
If you rather need a number of hours, multiply by 24 as #Kerry Jackson suggested.
The logic behing date/time values is that 1 day = 1, so
1 hour = 1/24
1 min = 1/1440 '(that is 24*60 )
etc...

Answer 2

Put this in a module
Public Function DateTimeDiff(d1 As Date, d2 As Date)
Dim diff As Double
diff = ABS(d2 - d1)
DateTimeDiff = Fix(diff) & Format(diff, " hh:mm")
End Function
Then use
=DateTimeDiff( NOW(), E2 )
as the formula in the worksheet.
You might want to add some validation on the dates and return an error message if they are not valid.

Answer 3

Are you looking for a number which is the number of hours, or are you looking for text?
If you want the number of hours, try just subtracting the dates, and multiplying by 24, so the formula would be =(NOW()-E2)*24.

Answer 4

Public Function timeElapsed(ByVal target_cell As Range) As String
Dim hours As Long, minutes As Long, days As Long
If target_cell.Value = 0 Then Exit Function
x = DateDiff("n", target_cell, Now())
days = Format(Application.WorksheetFunction.RoundDown(x / 1440, 0), "00")
hours = Format(Application.WorksheetFunction.RoundDown((x - (days * 1440)) / 60, 0), "00")
minutes = Format(Application.WorksheetFunction.RoundDown((x - ((days * 1440) + (hours * 60))), 0), "00")
timeElapsed = CStr(days) & " " & "days" & " " & CStr(hours) & ":" & CStr(minutes)
End Function
And use as function with the result as below:
So you code becomes:
With ws1
.Range("N2:N" & lastrow1).FormulaR1C1 = "=timeElapsed(RC[-9])"
End With