R help - Feb 2016 - [FORGED] Re: determine the year of a date

On 04/02/16 09:55, Boris Steipe wrote:
> Who said this was Excel? What did I miss?
If data have been fucked up, it is odds-on that Excel is to blame.

cheers,

Rolf Turner

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Fortune candidate...

-pd
> On 03 Feb 2016, at 22:13 , Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz>
wrote:
> 
> On 04/02/16 09:55, Boris Steipe wrote:
>> Who said this was Excel? What did I miss?
> 
> If data have been fucked up, it is odds-on that Excel is to blame.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Rolf Turner
> 
> -- 
> Technical Editor ANZJS
> Department of Statistics
> University of Auckland
> Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276
> 
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Hi all,
If you don't want Excel to surreptitiously "correct" dates that
are not in
mm/dd/yyyy format, always specify international format yyyy-mm-dd in Excel.

Jim


On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 8:26 AM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Fortune candidate...
>
> -pd
>
> > On 03 Feb 2016, at 22:13 , Rolf Turner <r.turner at
auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> >
> > On 04/02/16 09:55, Boris Steipe wrote:
> >> Who said this was Excel? What did I miss?
> >
> > If data have been fucked up, it is odds-on that Excel is to blame.
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > Rolf Turner
> >
>
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