Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific data

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Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific data
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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.

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

That appears to actually be a feature.

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

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

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.