Ehhh, everyone in biology has seen the effects of Excel date conversion and has probably experienced it in some of their own data workups. While I have certainl

Ehhh, everyone in biology has seen the effects of Excel date conversion and has probably experienced it in some of their own data workups. While I have certainly been annoyed that it happens, I do not look down upon other researchers who have a few adulterated septins slip into their work. Until the day where everyone is computationally savvy and can do their processing in Python/R/Julia, it is the state of the world. As a matter of fact, HUGO agreed to rename some of the worst offender genes to Excel-friendly formats[0]. [0]https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-rename-microsoft-excel-misreading-dates https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-renam...