Comments on: Excel dates counted differently and a reliable way of working out the day of the week https://lobsterpot.com.au/blog/2009/07/05/excel-dates-counted-differently-and-a-reliable-way-of-working-out-the-day-of-the-week/ Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:08:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: robfarley https://lobsterpot.com.au/blog/2009/07/05/excel-dates-counted-differently-and-a-reliable-way-of-working-out-the-day-of-the-week/#comment-694 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:08:01 +0000 /blogs/robfarley/archive/2009/07/05/excel-dates-counted-differently-and-a-reliable-way-of-working-out-the-day-of-the-week.aspx#comment-694 Thanks for the links Jimmy & Adrian. I certainly didn’t know that Macs did it differently again!

I think all this means that anyone using dates and numbers definitely has to give some thought to the matter.

Rob

]]> By: Adrian Downes https://lobsterpot.com.au/blog/2009/07/05/excel-dates-counted-differently-and-a-reliable-way-of-working-out-the-day-of-the-week/#comment-693 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:27:35 +0000 /blogs/robfarley/archive/2009/07/05/excel-dates-counted-differently-and-a-reliable-way-of-working-out-the-day-of-the-week.aspx#comment-693 Good post, Rob…. here’s some fuel to your fire for those who don’t believe that 1900 indeed was NOT a leap year:

http://www.timeanddate.com/date/leapyear.html

Best,
AD

]]> By: Jimmy May https://lobsterpot.com.au/blog/2009/07/05/excel-dates-counted-differently-and-a-reliable-way-of-working-out-the-day-of-the-week/#comment-692 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:59:26 +0000 /blogs/robfarley/archive/2009/07/05/excel-dates-counted-differently-and-a-reliable-way-of-working-out-the-day-of-the-week.aspx#comment-692 In another challenge related to 1900, the calendars are different in Excel for Mac & PC.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/214330
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/180162

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