On 2009-03-24, at 08:28, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
why on earth "2009-03-05" *WITH* quotes end up as May 03, 2009 - even in the Dutch locale - is way beyond my level of understanding.
Because double-quotes are part of CSV field layout, and it's legal for a program to quote ALL strings. In one CSV generator I used single- quotes (which mean nothing to CSV) around serial numbers to keep Excel from turning them into decimals. No, Excel, 0012345678 is not the same as 12345678.
