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Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific data
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I think the point was that the format itself is odd. I am European and it's weird to me: logically it should be either from greatest to smallest, or from smallest to greatest, not a weird in-between.
Logically it would be milliseconds since 1970.
Not very good for birthdates.