Who? And what does he have to do with TFA?

The most important comments are often also the most unassuming.

I cannot over-emphasise how much I agree with this.

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I am after spending most of the last two full weeks trying to import several hundred .csv files into an Excel spreadsheet. The files have the dates and times in a single field, in US format:

,m/d/yy 3:14 AM,

But my system's regional settings are set to the Irish standard:

dd/mm/yyyy 03:14:00

Importing through "Power Query" (a lie if there ever was) was a fecking nightmare. Even when I specifically indicated that the field was in MDY format, Excel ignored my input completely. So "3/3/21" imported fine... but as soon as it hit 3/13/21, PQ errored out and refused to load the data.

I figured that perhaps the combined date/time field was tripping it up. So I split the field (using a space as the delimiter) into separate date and time columns.
3/3:
| 3/3/21 | 03:14:00 |
3:13:
Error: Invalid date

WTF??

So I split the date field again, using "/" as the delimiter. So now I have
3/3:
| 3 | 3 | 21 | 03:14:00 |
3/16:
Error: Invalid date

o_O??

I tried changing the regional settings in Windows.

Nothing.

In Office.

Nothing.

In Excel.

Nothing.

What I finally discovered (after an embarrassingly long time) is that Power Query HAS ITS OWN REGIONAL SETTINGS. So finally I switched that to US standard, and the data began importing.

But I couldn't leave it there. WTF was happening that PQ was looking at | 3 | 16 | 21 | and failing a date check??

It turns out that before PQ will run the logic to split the data into columns, it (silently) assigns a default data type to each field it's importing, then checks the data against that data type and decides whether or not to import the field at all before running any of my logic on it. So it saw "type date", failed the validation (since it was quietly looking for - only - a Euro date format), and threw an error instead of importing the data and parsing it how I had instructed.

I apologise for the long post, but I needed to put this somewhere where it would be indexed and hopefully save someone else the dozens of hours of late-night pain it caused me.

And, circling back...

Please... please let microsoft/excel's date/time handling die a lonely, asphyxiated death.

</rant>

You're not fooling anyone.

Everyone knows trolls have excrement where their minds should be.

The system he was able to compromise allows for the direct download of new software and data to equipment (tractors, etc.).

One exploit in the delivery mechanism, and those 130,000 machines - and the agriculture that rely on them - are in trouble.

All right, I'll bite.

Define the human "races" in purely biological terms.

The appendix was so named because at one time people thought it was an evolutionary relic with no current function.

Now, of course, we think the appendix serves a very important purpose.

So while you label this nerve's path an 'error', I don't necessarily agree. If we knew so little about giraffes' social structure, how much less do we really understand about their anatomy?

As a security professional, I've built an entire (quite lucrative) career on this concept as it relates to microsoft products.

In the interest's of consistencie's, ye's, it i's one of the requirement's, alway's.

A few broken eggs are not worth the cost of paying someone to glue them back together.

This is very true. But my copy of the Constitution must be missing the "Expectation of Privacy" clause somehow. Where in your copy is it defined?

I've said many things, but calling her a 'space station' would indeed be dangerous!

So we have to abide by your definition of what the "true" expectation of privacy is?

Oh, wait, you said 'You do not have an expectation of privacy legally speaking. I.e., we must abide by the definition imposed by the government.

Emmm..

No need. you've already relinquished them, it appears.

Define "terrorist" and "insurgent" as you mean them, please.

Severely under-rated comment.

Anyone who wants this sort of access should be required - by international law and treaty - to have the same software installed on their own devices and open to the public for inspection.

The concept that I should trust someone simply because they trust themselves is utterly mental.

The people who work on LRO, MRO, Mars landers, Hubble, Webb, New Horizons, Space Command, etc. (nearly ad infinitum) might take a bit of issue with your definition of what a 'space program' is there, lad.

I'd say the US still has a fairly robust space progam.