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Re:What Is Wrong with TOML? by macNchz on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @09:50AM (#37496734)
Too many encounters with Excel’s “smart” date parsing would make me very concerned about using it this way.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/stop-automaticall...

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Re:What Is Wrong with TOML? by Rygian on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @10:03AM (#37496910)
That page is such a gem.

> "make it easier to enter dates. For example, 12/2 changes to 2-Dec"

12/2 is obviously the 12th of February in my locale. But I need to keep Excel in English as a company policy, so this is not only unhelpful, it's outright wrong.

> Unfortunately there is no way to turn this off.

How does Microsoft justify this choice?

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Re:What Is Wrong with TOML? by macNchz on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @10:44AM (#37497429)
I’ve never understood why they don’t provide the option to disable it, it’s not like Excel is a sleek, minimalist piece of software with strong opinions and limited configuration.

I also love how the support article describes a behavior of their own software as “very frustrating”.

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