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[edit] 1900 date format

Please explain the "1900 date format". Is it something unique to Microsoft? — Joe Kress 19:40, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

I have a related query. It says currently: In Microsoft Excel, the day 0 of the 1900 date format is January 0, 1900. However, as the fact that 1900 was not a leap year in the Gregorian calendar is ignored, it actually corresponds to 30 December 1899.
  • Q.1 Why doesn't it correspond to 31 December 1899, being the day preceding 1 January 1900?
  • Q.2 What does this have to do with leap years? Leap years only make their mark on 29 February, ie. 29 February 1900 in this case. How could this possibly affect dates in the preceding December/January? JackofOz 00:32, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Answers 1 and 2: The article was wrong. It has nothing to do with leap years so I removed the However sentence. To clarify I included quotes from the Microsoft cite.-Wikianon (talk) 01:14, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nominated for deletion

I have nominated this for deletion, for the reasons stated on the relevant deletion discussion page. Tilefish 16:29, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

The result was Keep but the nomination prompted several people to improve the article and justify its existence, the job's a good'un. Tilefish 21:35, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DONT DELETE

Don delete this its a real thing and therefore should be added to the Wikipedia database —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.59.25.130 (talk) 12:42, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Articles for deletion This article was nominated for deletion on 4 September 2007. The result of the discussion was Keep.