Is there a problem with open document import in recent versions of
gretl 1.9.1cvs.  On Windows XP gretl cvs (built date 2009-1-1) will
not recognise the date column in the attached data set.  Gretl 1.7.9
cvs 2008-12-12 built in Ubuntu 8.04 will.  The attached is only the
first few records of a data set containg over 5000 records.

If I export the data set to excel (XP) I get a message similar to that
below when I try to read the import the excel data set (in both
windows and ubuntu).  32146 is the integer representation of the first
date in the data set.  39785 is the integer representation of the
last.  Is it the case that excel requires a string representation of
the date rather than an Excel date format.



   first row label "32146", last label "39785"
trying to parse row labels as dates...
   3214: probably not a year
   but I can't make sense of the extra bit


Best regards

John Frain



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John C Frain
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2
Ireland
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Attachment: temp2.ods
Description: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet

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