[Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] | [List Home]
Subject: Re: [office] Excel 2007 != Ecma spec YEARFRAC. Not evenslightly. What should we do?
Ideally there'd be worldwide agreement. But we need to decide what can be done if that will NOT happen soon. >Maybe the solution is to have more than 5 bases? We let 0-4 be the >"Excel-compatible" options that match, as much as we can ascertain, what >Excel 2007 does. Then we have additional options 5, 6, 7, etc., that >match current external financial authorities exactly. I'd rather there be a bigger number gap for the different options. We could define basis=128, 129, 130, and so on, and define both Excel-2007-compatible algorithms and official algorithms. If you use basis=128 in OpenDocument, then you'd be guaranteed to get a particular algorithm. That still doesn't resolve how to deal with basis=0 through 4. If we can separate the algorithms from the basis mappings for 0..4, we might be able to get the best of both worlds. I.E., you could have a recalculation setting that determined how basis 0..4 mapped. Here's one approach: add a parameter called "basis_offset" to the sheet; it's a value added to the basis value before YEARFRAC and friends are called if the basis value < 128. That would enable us to support many algorithm mappings, should that prove to be necessary. That's not ideal, but it's _an_ approach. An advantage of this approach is that we can handle legacy documents, which depended on the Excel algorithms, as well as support standard basis values. Other solutions welcome. --- David A. Wheeler
[Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] | [List Home]