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I'm not sure why this is FP news. I knew "1/2" was being interpreted as "January 2" as soon as I saw the title. This is nothing new, or even particularly interesting -- Excel (and Sheets) have been doing this date conversion from the beginning.

This is just an ad for Quadratic, nothing more.

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It explains why the result is the particular value it is, which depends on the date serial number mechanism Excel uses and the mistaken 1900 leap year. I learned something, personally. Also, WRT the idea that “everyone knows” Excel will treat 1/2 as a date… https://xkcd.com/1053/