Review of Jesse Phillips's CSV Parser

Vladimir Panteleev vladimir at thecybershadow.net
Fri Nov 11 04:43:49 PST 2011


On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:50:52 +0200, Don <nospam at nospam.com> wrote:

> Far more horrible than that -- in an old Excel from around 2000 the user  
> interface used US settings for reading short dates, if the day of the  
> month was 12 or less. Otherwise it uses the locale. But it always uses  
> the locale for displaying them.
>
> So 11/1, 12/1, 13/1 gets changed to 1 Nov, 1 Dec, 13 Jan.
>
> I wrote a macro called "November 9" (9/11) for swapping them back if  
> they were in the buggy range.

Wow. Reminds me of this:  
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/TransAtlantic-Time-Trap.aspx

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  Vladimir                            mailto:vladimir at thecybershadow.net


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