From 2020: "Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24070385)

Exactly. They couldn't really change it even if they wanted to. The implementation with all of its warts and quirks is now the standard.

	▲	jsmith99 a day ago \| parent [-]
		They've now made a change in that at least when you open a csv it now asks you beforehand if you want your data transformed, eg converting strings to numbers where that loses leading zeros.