I wouldn't be surprised if a parser treated a value as text only because it has spaces on it.For OP, if you are going for this, I - personally - suggest sticking to "%d,%2d:%2d,%.1f".
you're rightin fact importing datas in spreadsheet I've had some problems. I'll follow this suggestion. tnks a lot! :)
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