It's not just about data entry. Entering dates properly in excel allows you to calculate with dates.
If you want to know what date and time it will be 476 days and 12 hours from today you can just do =TODAY()+476.5
This is very useful when the requirement is to 'happen every 10 days' or you're looking for '30 days in the past'
Excel has a very low barrier of entry compared to pandas while boasting an immense amount of power and features. I think it was not an easy challenge to keep it going over the decades.
> US dates
I'm a non-US person and I fixed this simply by changing my locale to enUS everywhere. It has an added benefit of not having weird translations of everything in random tools and excel functions not being localized to their cringy versions in my native tongue.
If you want to know what date and time it will be 476 days and 12 hours from today you can just do =TODAY()+476.5
This is very useful when the requirement is to 'happen every 10 days' or you're looking for '30 days in the past'
Excel has a very low barrier of entry compared to pandas while boasting an immense amount of power and features. I think it was not an easy challenge to keep it going over the decades.
> US dates I'm a non-US person and I fixed this simply by changing my locale to enUS everywhere. It has an added benefit of not having weird translations of everything in random tools and excel functions not being localized to their cringy versions in my native tongue.