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Subject: RE: [office-formula] serial number? Don't we mean serial date?
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 12:36 -0800, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Rob, I mainly agree that there is no "type," Serial Day, but there are an > incredible number of places where the current OpenFormula functions produce > and accept Number values that are interpreted as serial-day values as part > of the definition of those functions. > Are there really? Aren't most simply conversions? Off the top of the head I can't come up with one function that really depends on this conversion! THE USUAL ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS > > Many OpenFormula functions depend implicitly on the global origin-date/epoch > value and the calendar mapping that goes with that origin date. This is > true for anything involving a start-date and end-date parameter, especially > YEARFRAC and anything that has time-period basis adjustments that depend on > the actual calendar periods involved. > I don't see how this depends (indirectly or otherwise) on the global origin-date/epoch value and the calendar mapping. Could you explain please We can't define these functions > without acknowledging the existence of a mapping known to the implementation > of the functions and talking about the dates those mappings correspond to. > The DATEDIF function is a particularly interesting case of this > interdependence. > The definition of datedif is: Returns the difference in years, months, or days of two date numbers. [plus a table to handle left overs] How does this depend on the number<->date mappping? Andreas > -- Andreas J. Guelzow Concordia University College of Alberta
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