@futuresprog@mastodon.nzoss.nz
Post #2455645
2026-04-16 20:07 UTC
I haven’t witnessed that one yet, thankfully, although recently Excel is really sure I want / instead of - in my dates.
I’ve seen two different people get different dates from the same CSV file.
One person was in the US with middle-endian dates. Where the dates could be parsed that way they got turned into mm-dd-yy and where they couldn’t they got left as into dd-mm-yy
Another person got dd-mm-yy the entire way through. A right disaster.
Tada! Excel!
@michcampbell@fediscience.org
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@Phil_Tanner@mastodon.philtanner.com 2026-04-16 20:14
@futuresprog@mastodon.nzoss.nz @michcampbell@fediscience.org Dates are hard. Always unexpectedly painful. And then Excel enters the picture and makes a hard problem unpossible.