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Re:Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misre... by LatteLazy on Thursday August 06, 2020 @10:03AM (#24070962)
Maybe American dates are only foisted on us English speakers? Yet another complexity to be unravelled...
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Re:Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misre... by anon98356 on Thursday August 06, 2020 @11:33AM (#24071847)
As an non American English speaker Excel would also format that as 1 Feb for me. It has been pretty good at picking up your locale for a long time, and is also reasonably trivial to change
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