On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Paul Russell wrote:
This of course assumes that NT will run next year... I hear Excel 2000 still stores dates as two digit integers, hence my pesimism.
I suspect thats roumer, and not fact since excel has, iirc used a proper internal representation for quite some time...
Rumour it may be, the information came from release notes associated with Gnumeric in which it's date handling got fixed; the maintainer of Gnumeric and author of the release notes is non other than Miguel de Icaza, someone not exectly known for his brilliant PR-abilities ;-)