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Michael Beneke
Feb 23, 2018Copper Contributor
custom formatting of years prior to 1900
Discovered a bug in Excel: given a date I need to reformat this to a custom YYYYMMDD. This works great unless the year begins with "18"; the results are '37931222', for instance when translating 12/25/1894
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- Haytham AmairahSilver Contributor
Michael,
This is not a bug!
Excel's https://support.office.com/en-us/article/date-systems-in-excel-e7fe7167-48a9-4b96-bb53-5612a800b487 is programmed this way.
The starting date of the date system is 1/1/1900.