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Re:Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misre... by reportgunner on Friday August 07, 2020 @03:32AM (#24079305)
I see where you are coming from, but I would argue that if you omit a part, it's not a date anymore.
Re:Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misre... by owl57 on Friday August 07, 2020 @11:08AM (#24082656)
Yes! It's not the first time I posted a rant on the net and found myself guilty of the sin the very next day. This time, a web app of mine has big tables full of dates, and I didn't quickly figure out a way to show the full date without too much clutter. So, I used "dd.mm" and postponed a finer design till next year. Guess what, this UI element hasn't changed in the next three years and today I finally stumbled on a bunch of records which really can't be deduced from context.