Re: [libreoffice-users] Calculating MONTHNAME

If it is its been there a long time, because I first encountered this a
loooong time ago (I finally decided to ask about it).

Would appreciate someone confirming I'm not just crazy, and it should
work as I'm expecting.

On Fri Jan 13 2017 15:12:50 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time), Joe Conner
<joeconner2007@gmail.com> wrote:
> Bug???
>
> On 01/13/2017 12:05 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> > Ok, this is really driving me nuts...
> >
> > Given:
> >
> > =MONTH(NOW())
> > results in the number of the current month (1, for January)
> >
> > I want to simply translate this to the monthname, so I used:
> >
> > =TEXT(MONTH(NOW()),"MMM")
> > this almost gives me what I want, but it results in "Dec', instead of
> > "Jan" - WTF???
> >
> > Changing it to:
> >
> > =TEXT(MONTH(NOW())+1,"MMM")
> > gives me "Jan", which is what I want.
> >
> > Why do I have to add a '1' to it???


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