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by dredmorbius 714 days ago
Unless you're a geneticist:

"Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates" (2023) <https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-renam...>

Or anyone else for whom Excel's automatic data-munging "features" are a concern.