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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Realist: the glass is plastic

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I have the opposite problem. Half the time no matter how much I change the formatting on the cells I can't get a table to sort by date. It insists on alphabetical instead, so you've got 1/12/2024 ahead of 1/13/2023.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

This is because you've accidentally input the values as text somewhere along the line. First make sure your format is set to date in the range in question.

Make use of the DATEVALUE formula in blank column =DATEVALUE(your_range). This will output your range as a number. Note that your_range needs to be in your computers date format (I have mine set to YYYY.MM.DD, so that what I have to use, else it won't work. You might be American, so your dates would need to be MM/DD/YYYY) for DATEVALUE to recognise the text as a date string.

Then copy the output, paste as values only (alt, h, v, v), then copy that and paste it back into you range.

Make sure the format is set to date and you're laughing.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The solution for that is using a sane format for dates.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Yeah - I don't get to determine what date format 3rd party reports are generated in before I import into excel.

But excel has formatting options specifically designed to address this that it just ignores half the time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

When I worked in radio production, basically everything was formatted like YYYY-MM-DD. Which means stuff is really to find and properly in chronological order.

I still use the MM-DD format for my own file formatting, even though DD-MM is the Dutch standard.

YYYY-MM-DD is god’s perfect date notation as far as I’m concerned.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I have never run into this problem and wondered why. I realised it's because I instinctively put an equal sign whenever doing a fraction.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Physicist: state is undecided

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

The more lines you add in a program, the more stuff can break which is what I assume happens with excel when it thinks something is a date.

Spreaking from experience, my code is in a metaphorical sense a building that is built to lean towards the wind, but when the wind stops, the entire thing collapses. I assume that's how excel's code base works too.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago

1st of February.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

That’s 0.5 more than January 0th, 1900.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The realist: This is piss.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Or would that just be pissimistic?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

It was once

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure I've had excel do something like change 1/2 into March 6th....

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Or a UPC into scientific notation...

I've been doing heavy Excel/data work for years and never have I ever wanted or needed anything in scientific notation.

[–] [email protected] 106 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Libre Office: the glass is Feb 1st

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Some countries use YYYY MM DD which is also sane.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I prefer writing it out as DD MM YYYY, but i like my computer to sort everything by YYYY MM DD.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

YYYY-MM-DD is the ISO standard for that exact reason. It sorts chronologically without having to implement a custom comparator, regular string comparison is enough.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

YYYY-MM-DD is the only sane format.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

%s is cool as well in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In JavaScript it would be February 2.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In JavaScript it would be "true" for some reason

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I am almost sure 1/2 is indeed true

Edit: in javascript