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Re:Google Trying to Solve a UUID by thethimble on Saturday August 06, 2022 @11:39AM (#32369043)
I think if you explicitly type in a leading zero with five digits it seems reasonable that it should infer it’s a zip code.
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Re:Google Trying to Solve a UUID by pbhjpbhj on Saturday August 06, 2022 @02:06PM (#32370263)
It needs Clippy-ing: "recognise column as zip codes? always, now, not now, never, turn off format recognition".
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Re:Google Trying to Solve a UUID by 6510 on Saturday August 06, 2022 @07:37PM (#32372575)
If the column is going to be called something stupid like A, B or C clippy is going to have a hard time....
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Re:Google Trying to Solve a UUID by boosteri on Saturday August 06, 2022 @11:57AM (#32369175)
Maybe, given the appropriate locale in the system settings.
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Re:Google Trying to Solve a UUID by watwut on Saturday August 06, 2022 @12:12PM (#32369300)
Oh no, Jesus, please no. Nothing better then Excell file what behaves completely differently when moved to another computer, purely because of something like locale in system settings.
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Re:Google Trying to Solve a UUID by Findecanor on Saturday August 06, 2022 @02:14PM (#32370324)
First, you should not conflate the locale of the user or program with the locale of the (span in the) file.

Second, how would you handle international addresses? For many businesses, a program that can't do that would be useless.

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Re:Google Trying to Solve a UUID by replygirl on Saturday August 06, 2022 @04:38PM (#32371395)
programmers who don't work with time be like
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