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Freitag Oktober 20, 2006

Standardizing bugs!?
Amazing:

"Datetimes in Excel are represented as date serial numbers, where dates are counted from an origin, sometimes called an epoch, of January 1st, 1900. The problem is that from the earliest implementations Excel got it wrong. It thinks that 1900 was a leap year, when it clearly isn't, under Gregorian rules (not divisible by 400). This causes functions like the WEEKDAY() spreadsheet function to return incorrect values in some cases. See the support article on this issue.

Now I have no problems with that bug remaining in Excel for backwards compatibility reasons. That's an issue between Microsoft and their customers and not my concern. However, I am quite distressed to see this bug promoted into a requirement in the Ecma Office Open XML (OOXML) specification."

The full blog entry by IBM's Rob Weir can be found here. I also found this one quite interesting.
( Okt 20 2006, 02:19:04 PM CEST ) Permalink

Nice article about OpenOffice.org extension development
Here you can find a nice article about OpenOffice.org extension development by Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine. Check it out!
( Okt 20 2006, 05:49:54 AM CEST ) Permalink