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Completion report: Date format for "Excel-compatible format" CSV export updated to use excel compatible format

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    • MDL-45452-course_completion_excel_dates
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      1. In a course with some completions, click Reports > Course Completion.
      2. With some completions showing, click "Download in Excel-compatible format (.csv)".
      3. Open the file in Excel. Ignore any message about SYLK (that is unrelated to this issue).
      4. In Excel, select a date field.
      5. Click Format > Cells and see that date formats can be applied to the column.
      6. Select a date column in the Excel worksheet.
      7. Use Data > Sort to ensure Excel can now sort by the date column
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      In a course with some completions, click Reports > Course Completion. With some completions showing, click "Download in Excel-compatible format (.csv)". Open the file in Excel. Ignore any message about SYLK (that is unrelated to this issue). In Excel, select a date field. Click Format > Cells and see that date formats can be applied to the column. Select a date column in the Excel worksheet. Use Data > Sort to ensure Excel can now sort by the date column

      At the bottom of the "Course completion" report are the following two links:

      Download in spreadsheet format (UTF-8 .csv)
      Download in Excel-compatible format (.csv)

      Both currently output dates in whatever human-readable format is set as the user's locale preference for the site in general. These are (generally) not Excel-compatible, so Excel sees them as arbitrary strings rather than as dates, which can be sorted, reformatted, etc.

      Specifically choosing "Excel-compatible" should instead output dates that Excel can recognize as such. ISO 8601 format, userdate('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'), fits the bill. The referenced commit does so.

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            leonstr Leon Stringer
            raymor Ray Morris
            Paul Holden Paul Holden
            Ferran Recio Ferran Recio
            Ron Carl Alfon Yu Ron Carl Alfon Yu
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