Ran across a fairly nasty bug in Yahoo’s spreadsheet viewer, the one that lets its users view excel and similar files. I had a file set up with a column of type time, in HH:MM:SS AM/PM format, and what it does with that is show them as 12 AM or 12 PM! I could not figure out why my co-hort (in organizing a seminar) was having such trouble confirming flight arrivals and departures until she showed me what she was doing.

So…if you’re using Yahoo to look at these files, be aware that it has at least this problem. Google’s spreadsheet viewer was fine, MS’s Excel was fine, and OOo’s spread sheet all were fine with this file. And Google and OOo are free (the former with a Google Account, that’s easy enough to sign up for).

So just passing along that warning. Also, sorry about the hiatus, it’s been absolutely crazy at work and then also with this seminar coming up. I should be picking up soon.