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From: aslakson@cs.umn.edu (Brian Aslakson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Weird Excel behavior
Message-ID: <1990Oct24.004033.4941@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 24 Oct 90 00:40:33 GMT
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fwb@demon.siemens.com (Frederic W. Brehm) writes:
>Excel thinks "1/2" is a date entered without the year. 1/2/1990 is 31413
>days after day 0 (whatever that was, figuring this out is left as an
>exercise for the reader).

You mean exercise in finding the answer in a horrible manual set, or, an
exercise in simple math taking far less time to figure it out?

(I know more about MacDates than I ever wanted to know thanks to backing up
files from the year 2040 over and over and over again -- by the way, a 
script in MPW did the trick, but is there a program out there that will
sweep thru a hard drive and set dates (hopefully dates by my parameters
to dates by my parameters),(and hopefully under AppleShare)????)

Brian Aslakson
2040 is the answer to next weeks quiz.