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Re:Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misre... by thaumasiotes on Thursday August 06, 2020 @04:48PM (#24075308)
The integer 20200806 is chosen solely for the purpose of human readability. If you actually wanted to store a date as an integer, you'd use the Julian day.
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