https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142974
Mike Kaganski <mikekagan...@hotmail.com> changed:
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--- Comment #8 from Mike Kaganski <mikekagan...@hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Felix Collins from comment #7)
> I guess it would be a horrible backward compatibility issue though.
True. There are billions of spreadsheets that do calculations like
"DATEVALUE("2021-06-22")+1/1440" to mean "add 1 minute to the date", or add 1
to add 1 day, etc.
> It would be interesting to know why the original design decision went this
> way.
I suppose that back in the day, in 1980s, computers didn't have a reasonable
integer type capable of holding such numbers like *milli*seconds (the minimal
reasonable resolution for time in spreadsheets, since people often need
sub-second precision) since epoch - even seconds already approach unsigned
32-bit limit, and spreadsheets started even before 32-bit era.
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