misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoMicrosoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific datawww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1162arrow-down15
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minus-squaremacrocephalic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33arrow-down1·9 months agoNow if only it would stop dropping leading zeros unless you ask it, and we got rid of the MM/DD/yyyy date format entirely.
minus-squaretheparadox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 months ago Now if only it would stop dropping leading zeros unless you ask it That appears to actually be a feature.
minus-squareEtterra@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down4·9 months agoMM/DD/YYYY is the correct format here in America.
minus-squareEngineerGaming@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·9 months agoI think the point was that the format itself is odd. I am European and it’s weird to me: logically it should be either from greatest to smallest, or from smallest to greatest, not a weird in-between.
Now if only it would stop dropping leading zeros unless you ask it, and we got rid of the MM/DD/yyyy date format entirely.
That appears to actually be a feature.
MM/DD/YYYY is the correct format here in America.
I think the point was that the format itself is odd. I am European and it’s weird to me: logically it should be either from greatest to smallest, or from smallest to greatest, not a weird in-between.