Readership
This morning, I have this email from Sjon Svenson:
>Not good-- tends to lead to decreasing readership, y'know?Decreasing, deceasing, its all the same thing! Eventually, there'd be nobody left to talk to . . . except my cellmate!
Shouldn't that be Deceaseing readership :-)
More on Short Dates
Jan continues:
As to the date problem.I don't know that I can handle two men, with opposite opinions, being right! I'll post your update and let people work on it. What it comes down to is that if your work requires dates, you need to change it but if it isn't date reliant, you shouldn't have a problem. In a way, it makes sense because the program that Brian had crash at his office is a date-reliant program.
Kitterman is right. For normal programs the display format has no impact on their function.
But ... (I am fameous for 'But ...'s) Some programs pick values off the screen and they are not safe.
Ex in most spread sheets you can use dates formatted using the display format. If such a date is later used in a formula somewhere else you are in danger.
Normal spreadsheet calculations handle this correctly but it is possible to chop a date into parts using string functions, for example if you want to display the year in a title. If one of the chopped of years is later used again for calculating you may see a brick wall approaching.
:-)
And it is not only spreadsheets that are affected.So Brian is right and Scott is right. It shouldn't be a problem but it may well be.
Thanks for your input-- somehow, we'll get this straightened
out before the end of the year!
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