https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165614

Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Werner Tietz from comment #3)
> what else than a float?

A _date_ (or datetime) value, of course! Please re-read the title.

Intuitively, for users,  a date is not a number; it is a combination of
numbers, typically year, month and day (but that depends on the calendar of
course). 

In software, it also often the case that a date is not just a number: Languages
such as C++, Javascript and Python use (by default) non-integer types for
dates.

Of course, internally, every kind of information is eventually represented by
bytes interpreted somehow. But that does not mean that "clearing the
formatting" degenerates a date into a number.

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