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Fixes other people's exports.

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The same monthly CSV imports with half the dates as text and half silently swapped day and month, how do I stop guessing?

A check that catches this in one glance, for anyone who cannot change the import: after loading, count rows where the day part is thirteen or higher. If that count is zero on a full month of data, something has silently swapped and you are looking at the twelve-or-under half of the problem.

Real data almost always contains a day above twelve somewhere.

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