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From 2020: "Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24070385 https://news.ycombinato
by ciupicri 10mo ago
From 2020: "Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24070385 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24070385)
- lysace 10mo agoExactly. They couldn't really change it even if they wanted to. The implementation with all of its warts and quirks is now the standard.
- jsmith99 10mo agoThey've now made a change in that at least when you open a csv it now asks you beforehand if you want your data transformed, eg converting strings to numbers where that loses leading zeros.