{"id":27,"date":"2006-10-20T18:26:33","date_gmt":"2006-10-21T01:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corneliadavis.com\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2006-10-20T18:26:33","modified_gmt":"2006-10-21T01:26:33","slug":"this-is-priceless-priceless-not-necessarily-implying-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corneliadavis.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/20\/this-is-priceless-priceless-not-necessarily-implying-good\/","title":{"rendered":"This is priceless (&#8220;priceless&#8221;not necessarily implying good)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/leap-back.html\">A Leap Back<\/a> by Rob Weir and must say that this was a pretty enjoyable way to spend part of my Friday evening.  In short, the post is about a mistake that Microsoft is making with respect to Office Open XML around the serialization of dates &#8211; seems Excel introduced a bug when it considered the year 1900 a leap year.  Instead of Office Open XML serializing dates the right way they are now specifying this bug.  Ugh.  I keep thinking to myself &#8220;Really?&#8221;&#8230; &#8220;Really?&#8221;I&#8217;ve been working in standards for a little over a year now and have learned A LOT.  One thing is that I had this naive notion that because the standards were generally crafted by a bunch of really smart and dedicated people that the right thing, by and large, gets done.  Sure on some level I guess I realized that &#8220;bugs&#8221; could be introduced there just like anywhere else, but I thought the obvious stuff would get caught.  Well, okay, sometimes I am naive.  Okay, so Office Open XML is not a standard but its relevance can&#8217;t be easily dismissed so I sure hope this gets fixed.[Updated]Okay, so it is almost a standard, for what it&#8217;s worth.  Report from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecma-international.org\/memento\/TC45.htm\">ECMA TC45<\/a> says in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecma-international.org\/news\/TC45_current_work\/TC45-2006-50_06Sept28.htm\">28 September, 2006 status report<\/a> the committee members voted unanimously to accept the current draft as v1.0.  Seems that this is now (as of 6 October) at the ECMA general assembly for final thumbs up &#8211; around December 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read A Leap Back by Rob Weir and must say that this was a pretty enjoyable way to spend part of my Friday evening. In short, the post is about a mistake that Microsoft is making with respect to Office Open XML around the serialization of dates &#8211; seems Excel introduced a bug [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,33,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metadata","category-standards","category-xml"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corneliadavis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corneliadavis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corneliadavis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corneliadavis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corneliadavis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corneliadavis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corneliadavis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corneliadavis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corneliadavis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}