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[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, 1 February It would have been for most. Now it's just an north american joke

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I just tested, entering “1/2” into excel results in “02-Jan”

Truly cursed.

[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think it should follow regional settings, but don't have high hopes (nor much the experience)

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This brings back memories of trying to match locale info from my local computer, a remote server, a MySQL db, and a different Python app in a different server region.

It was for an international email campaign so each users email needed to match their in app locale for number and currency formatting, but there were like a half a dozen different layers of apps and servers that all handled locales differently.

Add in a hard deadline for the client and oof, that was a painful week.

LC_ALL=C is now cursed knowledge that resides in my brain. I wasn’t able to install Babel or any other libraries because security reasons so I had to handle everything manually.

[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

0.5 but keeps the fraction in the formula bar.

That one doesn’t surprise me at all.

[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Then go format as date on the cell

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Jan 1, 1900

And as a time it’s exactly 12 PM

[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Weird. When I entered 0.5 as a raw figure it gave me Jan 0, 1900 at 12 pm.