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[–] pianoplant@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It's actually because January is also misspelled. Or possibly because Excel's language/region isn't set up right (I see your month abbreviations aren't us-eng... If excel is in us-eng it likely isn't going to identify them properly.

[–] donuts@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Correct, but my locale is Dutch so it's spelled correctly. Changing the language doesn't matter for this exercise

[–] pianoplant@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ironically AI would probably work ok here whereas excel is using a human-designed pattern matching heuristic that apparently either has a bug or didn't take into account your locale properly. I say that as someone with a relatively negative opinion of ai

This is a task ai would do well at whereas most of the Excel workflow it would not.

[–] donuts@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

The language used doesn't matter and it's not a bug. I can't be arsed to set my whole office suite to English but this is what Excel does, no matter what language you're using. So if I used English month abbreviations, the same thing would still happen.