Update, This appears to be the issue.
Thanks! The original source for the data in the spreadsheet was from Excel from about 15 years ago. Since then it's been through a bunch of upgrades to MS Office, StarOffice, OpenOffice and LibreOffice on several different systems both Mac and PC and across many operating system revisions. Once I got the base dates set to match in the new spreadsheets the dates work as expected. On the Mac it's changed in Preferences, Calc, Calculate over on the right hand side of the window, in case anyone else is looking for the Tools link mentioned in the help web site. Now I'm trying to figure out if there is a way to write some sort of Macro to change the dates so I can set the day zero to be the now standard one of 12/30/1899 and update my spreadsheets. The volume of them and the legacy data may make it impossible. Anyway, thanks for solving my problem. On May 12, 2013, at 3:09 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote: > Hi. Take a look at > https://help.libreoffice.org/3.6/Calc/Date_and_Time_Functions > To me the difference you are getting looks close to the difference between > the date bases for day zero. > Steve Eugenie (Oogie) McGuire Desert Weyr http://www.desertweyr.com/ Paonia, CO USA -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
