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From: Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: dates in a spreadsheet
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:26:53 -0400
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Josh Mattoon <joshmattoon@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm using the spreadsheet capabilities of org for the first time (very co=
ol!)
> to plan an upcoming trip. =C2=A0I'd like to create a column formula to au=
tomatically
> calculate the dates/day of week but I'm a bit stumped. =C2=A0I don't see =
a way for
> the formula to know which row it is currently processing. =C2=A0I'm also =
coming up
> short trying to find any elisp to go from day of year -> formatted date s=
tring.
> =C2=A0Any suggestions?

Hi Josh,

Could you provide a small example table that shows the challenge you are
describing?

Dan


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