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Default Eliminate Excel date formatting

When I enter "Jan 03" meaning the month of January 2003, the program
automatically enters 3-Jan and assumes I mean January 3, 2006. I have
changed the number format of the entire column to General and have even tried
changing it to the date format "Mar 01" to no avail. How do I prohibit Excel
from ASSUMING what I want to enter and just let me enter what I want?

Also, is there any way for excel to calculate times, like 22 minutes 15
seconds plus 8 minutes 12 seconds?
 
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