[libreoffice-users] Odd behavior using DATE() function in calc

I have a spreadsheet with three columns: year, month, day.  In the 4th column
I use the DATE() function to create a date from these columns. It works fine
if there are valid data, but if the month and day column are empty, the
results are surprising.

For example:
  DATE(1995,<blank>,<blank>)
is the same as:
   DATE(1995,0,0)
which turns out to be:
    30 Nov, 1994

I would rather the system generate an error warning (e.g., "data out of
range") than silently produce a counter-intuitive result.

Am I missing something obvious here?

(config:
Xubuntu 12.04
LibreOffice 3.5.7.2
Build ID: 350m1(Build:2)
)



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