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From: boris@world.std.com (Boris Levitin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Weird Excel behavior
Message-ID: <1990Oct25.061150.2714@world.std.com>
Date: 25 Oct 90 06:11:50 GMT
References: <1990Oct23.152734.8102@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <42898@siemens.siemens.com> <1990Oct24.004033.4941@cs.umn.edu>
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aslakson@cs.umn.edu (Brian Aslakson) writes:

>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).
>(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)????)

Norton Utilities for the Mac fixes file creation & modification dates that
don't make sense.