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The OOXML Date Bug 5 comments By AviPublished: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:16:43 -0300 Published: 16 Mar 2008 Published: 10:16 am Categories: OpenDocument Format Tags:

OOXML Date Bug

This is an example of an old Excel bug that was transported to OOXML for “compatibility” reasons.

In new OOXML, there are several non-standard ways to represent dates. The main one is this, that requires that 1900 is a leap year contradicting the Gregorian calendar, used for centuries now.

More info on this in a post by Rob Weir.

  5 Responses to “The OOXML Date Bug”

#1

Putz, minhas finanças pessoais para a semana final de fevereiro de 1900 vão ficar totalmente quebradas! Joguem fora o OOXML!

#3

Guilherme, isso só mostra de forma rápida e clara como um ítem básico e óbvio foi mal desenhado no OOXML.

Se há problemas aí, imagine o que se passa em detalhes mais complexos e importantes.

#4

Why wasn’t the German proposal taken into consideration?

#5

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