Exported date strings fail to become real dates
Dates exported as US month-first text, yyyymmdd numbers or ISO 8601 strings do not become usable dates.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
5 public reports · first reported 27 December 2018 · last reported 30 December 2023
What's going wrong
People importing CSV or database exports into Google Sheets find that dates arrive as text or as wrong dates.
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- The products the 5 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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