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Re:Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misre... by arrrg on Friday August 07, 2020 @02:41AM (#24079025)
Separating dates with dots (DD.MM.YYYY) is what’s taught in school in Germany.

So, yeah, there is a convention to write dates exactly that way.

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Re:Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misre... by lemmonii on Friday August 07, 2020 @03:02AM (#24079144)
Read the comment again...
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