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misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific data

www.theverge.com

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Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific data

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misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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Scientists can name genes whatever they want now.
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    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.

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      Now if only it would stop dropping leading zeros unless you ask it

      That appears to actually be a feature.

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        Holy shit! Now I just need to talk to some sysadmins and get some group policies set.

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          Apparently our typical installer for Visio 2016 and our 365 license use “incompatible installers” so it is going to be a pain in the ass for me to have both installed at the same time. Thankfully I’m trusted by IT so I might be able to just do it myself.

          Edit: Looks like I’ll need IT after all. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/use-the-office-deployment-tool-to-install-volume-licensed-editions-of-visio-2016

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      MM/DD/YYYY is the correct format here in America.

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        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.

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          Logically it would be milliseconds since 1970.

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            Not very good for birthdates.

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