Sujet : Re: The pain of Excel
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.misc alt.folklore.computersDate : 29. Sep 2024, 06:35:22
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On Sun, 29 Sep 2024 04:26:06 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
Is that the one where dates are expressed as the number of days since
January 1, 1900?
That was some Excel thing.
The old Macintosh counted time since 1st January 1904, which was cunningly
chosen so they didn’t have to deal with 1900 being an exception to the
rule of a leap year every four years.
I think Excel did actually consider 1900 to be a leap year at one point.