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What a Hancock-up: Excel spreadsheet blunder blamed after England under-reports 16,000 COVID-19 cases

Ken Moorhouse Silver badge

Re: If this fails then try to parse it as a local date.

Nice to have it confirmed that this is not something I imagined when encountering this in a spreadsheet I was troubleshooting recently.

Oh to see the comment-annotated source-code of Excel.

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