Epoch - an instant in time.
Lotus - (Here: ) a mystic tree, “
bearing a fruit that caused a pleasant drowsiness”.
Lotus 1-2-3 -
a myst... A spreadsheet program.
I make this short. There are several ways to avoid the 30 december 1899 to appear in spreadsheet programs (i.e. applications which resemble M$-Excel and even act a lot like it: Gnumeric, LibreOffice Calc, SoftMaker PlanMaker, others). Here is a list that may be incomplete, all the same:
- Write a different date
- do
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