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  2. Time formatting and storage bugs - Wikipedia

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    On 5 January 1975, the 12-bit field that had been used for dates in the TOPS-10 operating system for DEC PDP-10 computers overflowed, in a bug known as "DATE75". The field value was calculated by taking the number of years since 1964, multiplying by 12, adding the number of months since January, multiplying by 31, and adding the number of days since the start of the month; putting 2 12 − 1 ...

  3. Microsoft Excel - Wikipedia

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    Formatting the cell as TEXT before entering ambiguous text prevents Excel from converting it. This issue has caused a well known problem in the analysis of DNA , for example in bioinformatics . As first reported in 2004, [ 91 ] genetic scientists found that Excel automatically and incorrectly converts certain gene names into dates.

  4. List of date formats by country - Wikipedia

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    All examples use example date 2021-03-31 / 2021 March 31 / 31 March 2021 / March 31, 2021 – except where a single-digit day is illustrated. Basic components of a calendar date for the most common calendar systems: D – day; M – month; Y – year; Specific formats for the basic components: yy – two-digit year, e.g. 24; yyyy – four-digit ...

  5. Year 1900 problem - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Excel (using the default 1900 Date System) cannot display dates before the year 1900, although this is not due to a two-digit integer being used to represent the year: Excel uses a floating-point number to store dates and times. The number 1.0 represents the first second of January 1, 1900, in the 1900 Date System (or January 2, 1904 ...

  6. Date-time group - Wikipedia

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    In communications messages, a date-time group (DTG) is a set of characters, usually in a prescribed format, used to express the year, the month, the day of the month, the hour of the day, the minute of the hour, and the time zone, if different from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

  7. Date and time representation by country - Wikipedia

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    The little-endian format (day, month, year; 1 June 2022) is the most popular format worldwide, followed by the big-endian format (year, month, day; 2006 June 1). Dates may be written partly in Roman numerals (i.e. the month) [citation needed] or written out partly or completely in words in the local language.

  8. Conditional text - Wikipedia

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    Conditional text is content within a document that is meant to appear in some renditions of the document, but not other renditions. For example, a writer can produce Macintosh and Windows versions of the same software manual by marking Macintosh-specific content as "Macintosh only" and Windows-specific content as "Windows only."

  9. Data format - Wikipedia

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    Data format in information technology may refer to: Data type , constraint placed upon the interpretation of data in a type system Signal (electrical engineering) , a format for signal data used in signal processing