posted by [identity profile] hilarityallen.livejournal.com at 06:41pm on 13/12/2012
Excel does loads of fun things like that. If you have a bunch of user ids that are things like abc23, then you have one like dec23, the latter gets automatically transformed into December 23 {current-year}. So, as you've found, you have to set the column to text when you import it, so it doesn't try to be Too Bloody Clever.
Edited Date: 2012-12-13 06:42 pm (UTC)
 
posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 07:23pm on 13/12/2012
Ooh, I think there are a bunch of genetic things like that too.
 
posted by [identity profile] pseudomonas.livejournal.com at 11:30pm on 13/12/2012
yeah. I've been bitten by that. Proteins called things like Sept4. Annoyingly, you can't even reverse it cos you can't tell if it used to be Sept4 or Sep4.

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