Some dates recognized as dates, some dates not recognized. Why?

Question

Here is a list of dates:

04-22-11
12-19-11
11-04-11
12-08-11
09-27-11
09-27-11
04-01-11

When you copy this list in Excel, some of th

Answer 1

A workaround for this problem consists in temporarily changing your regional settings, so the date format of the CSV imported file "matches" the regional settings one.

Open Office seems to work in a similar way for that issue, see: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=85898