On 5 Oct 2006 12:49:53 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually was about to post same solution and got same results. (BTW > Simon, the OP date is Aug 9th, 2006). Scratched head and googled for > excel date calculations... found this bug where it treats 1900 as leap > year incorrectly: > http://www.ozgrid.com/Excel/ExcelDateandTimes.htm
Ah - I was reading the OP's 8/9/2006 in the European way - DD/MM/YYYY. One might argue over whether DD/MM/YYYY or MM/DD/YYYY are more rational, but I find it best to avoid *both* those formats, 'cos they are so easily confused. -- Cheers, Simon B [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list