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Questions about the range and format of the data's StartingDate #36

Open tarmkalavan opened 1 year ago

tarmkalavan commented 1 year ago

Hi all, I was wondering if there is information regarding the date's format or the range of the StartingDate column given in the M4-info.csv or not.

From my observation, the StartingDate is usually in the format of "DD-MM-YY hh:mm", but there are some that break this rule or is ambiguous. For example:

M369 whose StartingDate is 1882-07-01 12:00:00 (which I supposed is the 1st of July, 1882).
M376 whose StartingDate is 01-01-17 12:00 (which I can't tell if it is 1st of January of 1917 or 2017).

Any clarification is appreciated!

BrunoBelucci commented 6 months ago

Have you found an answer to this question? I was asking myself the same question!