1st of February.
Perspective
Submitted 4 weeks ago by Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to [deleted]
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FelixCress@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
hOrni@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The realist: This is piss.
zedgeist@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Or would that just be pissimistic?
RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It was once
quink@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That’s 0.5 more than January 0th, 1900.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I have the opposite problem. Half the time no matter how much I change the formatting on the cells I can’t get a table to sort by date. It insists on alphabetical instead, so you’ve got 1/12/2024 ahead of 1/13/2023.
ryo@lemmy.eco.br 4 weeks ago
The solution for that is using a sane format for dates.
FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
When I worked in radio production, basically everything was formatted like YYYY-MM-DD. Which means stuff is really to find and properly in chronological order.
I still usw the MM-DD format for my own file formatting, even though DD-MM is the Dutch standard.
YYYY-MM-DD is god’s perfect date notation as far as I’m concerned.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah - I don’t get to determine what date format 3rd party reports are generated in before I import into excel.
But excel has formatting options specifically designed to address this that it just ignores half the time.
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This is because you’ve accidentally input the values as text somewhere along the line. First make sure your format is set to date in the range in question.
Make use of the DATEVALUE formula in blank column =DATEVALUE(your_range). This will output your range as a number. Note that your_range needs to be in your computers date format (I have mine set to YYYY.MM.DD, so that what I have to use, else it won’t work. You might be American, so your dates would need to be MM/DD/YYYY) for DATEVALUE to recognise the text as a date string.
Then copy the output, paste as values only (alt, h, v, v), then copy that and paste it back into you range.
Make sure the format is set to date and you’re laughing.
skvlp@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
This is not a glass.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Parrot says otherwise
Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Realist: the glass is plastic
WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Pretty sure I’ve had excel do something like change 1/2 into March 6th…
xpinchx@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Or a UPC into scientific notation…
I’ve been doing heavy Excel/data work for years and never have I ever wanted or needed anything in scientific notation.
Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
The more lines you add in a program, the more stuff can break which is what I assume happens with excel when it thinks something is a date.
Spreaking from experience, my code is in a metaphorical sense a building that is built to lean towards the wind, but when the wind stops, the entire thing collapses. I assume that’s how excel’s code base works too.
Mammothmothman@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Libre Office: the glass is Feb 1st
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Also the civilized world.
HK65@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Some countries use YYYY MM DD which is also sane.
IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
In JavaScript it would be February 2.
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
In JavaScript it would be “true” for some reason