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ScraperWiki tool to summarise stuff about any table of data
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These telephone numbers are being treated as year dates #37

Closed frabcus closed 11 years ago

frabcus commented 11 years ago

In a very bizarre way. In Aine's data hub.

https://beta.scraperwiki.com/dataset/benc66y

frabcus commented 11 years ago

It was interpreting a phone number like 01915661035 as a Unix style date (as it is roughly in range of modern decades, by coincidence). Have made it not do that if there is a leading zero, which is kind of a hack, but then the range check for "modern decades" is anyway.