I don’t know what you’re trying to do with Excel, but based on your posts, I can only wish you good luck. I’m happy to say that I have been able to outsource low level parsing to third party libraries for my needs so far. Well, except the interpreting semantic formatting part. That was on me.

You need another dragon for Excel and its two date systems.

My reaction as well. He was an absolute master of shaggy dog stories. The punchline is not the point, the delivery is.

He may still have enjoyed seeing this. Maybe make another long and hilarious joke about it. RIP Norm.