Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnumeric
The gnumeric status bar includes a total of all selected cells, in the appropriate format (e.g. a selection of currency formatted cells will be shown with a currency symbol). Unfortunately, the standard spreadsheet convention of value is used, which includes dates being counted as numbers of days since some epoch or something. If you select two date cells, it shows you a meaningless total of these numbers as a date (meaningless since it depends on the value of the epoch). Worse, if you select e.g. several currency cells which happen to have a date in the middle of them, the value of the currency cells will be added to the date in some incredibly meaningless way, and shown as a new date. This should be fixed by treating date formatted cells as 0, in the same way strings are, for the purposes of this sum. ** Affects: gnumeric (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged Status: Unconfirmed -- Gnumeric status bar: sum of selected cells, with dates https://launchpad.net/bugs/50662 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs