On 05/02/2013 09:52 PM, vsharris wrote:
I have a spreadsheet with three columns: year, month, day. In the 4th column
I use the DATE() function to create a date from these columns. It works fine
if there are valid data, but if the month and day column are empty, the
results are surprising.
For example:
DATE(1995,<blank>,<blank>)
is the same as:
DATE(1995,0,0)
which turns out to be:
30 Nov, 1994
I would rather the system generate an error warning (e.g., "data out of
range") than silently produce a counter-intuitive result.
Am I missing something obvious here?
(config:
Xubuntu 12.04
LibreOffice 3.5.7.2
Build ID: 350m1(Build:2)
)
I suppose then, that you will be horrified to know that you can also use
negative values..... so you can use this as an easy way to do date math
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