Re: Negative time, using [h]:mm?

[Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg home com>]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 02:18:39PM +0000, vegard bakke alliedpress co nz wrote:
> Jody Goldberg wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 05, 2001, vegard bakke alliedpress co nz wrote:
> >
> > > I know Excel has the same problem, but it's fixable by changing your
> > > type of calender.  How can you fix it in Gnumeric?
> >
> > hmm, this is tricky.  We would like to stay format compatible with
> > MS Excel.  Can you expand on 'changing your calendar' ?
>
> Okay I was wrong. You change the _date_format_, not calendar.  
> (The only knowledge I had was from usenet, not my own experience. ;)
>
>
> Try searching for:  '"[h]:mm" negative 1904'
> on http://groups.google.com  

Yuk!  Do way in hell will we support that cruft.
I've checked XL's apprach to '####################' for negatives
and [h] and think we can easily be incompatible and support
negatives.  I'll stick in support for it for the next release.