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

On 05/02/2013 09:52 PM, vsharris wrote:
> 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)
> )
I suppose then, that you will be horrified to know that you can also use 
negative values..... so you can use this as an easy way to do date math

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