Is SUMIF broken in Numbers 3.0?
What happened exactly with the SUMIF function in Numbers 3.0? The behavior is different to Numbers 2.3.
In the following table, the difference is obvious:
This is what happens in Numbers 2.3:
A
B
C
1
Month
Value
Formula of Previous Column
2
January
500
3
February
1000
4
March
1500
5
Total
3000
SUM(B2:B4)
6
7
8
January
500
SUMIF($A$2:$A$4, A8, $B$2:$B$4)
9
February
1000
SUMIF($A$2:$A$4, A9, $B$2:$B$4)
10
March
1500
SUMIF($A$2:$A$4, A10, $B$2:$B$4)
This is the same table opened in Numbers 3.0:
A
B
C
1
Month
Value
Formula of Previous Column
2
January
500
3
February
1000
4
March
1500
5
Total
3000
SUM(B2:B4)
6
7
8
January
500
SUMIF($A$2:$A$4, A8, $B$2:$B$4)
9
February
2500
SUMIF($A$2:$A$4, A9, $B$2:$B$4)
10
March
2500
SUMIF($A$2:$A$4, A10, $B$2:$B$4)
According to the Numbers 3.0 manual:
"The SUMIF function returns the sum of a collection of numbers, including only numbers that satisfy a specified condition.
SUMIF(test-values, condition, sum-values)"
So Numbers 2.3 would be correct, summing up the values given in sum-values if the corresponding test-value matches the condition.
What happens in Numbers 3.0?
The bug actually seems to originate not from the regional settings but from the time zone, more specifically, I assume from the daylight saving.
For everyone who is interested, that's how you can reproduce the bug:
- Open template "Budget" in Numbers 2.3 or earlier.
-> Note how the additional income of June and December is added in the Annual Budget per Month
- Save it to a file
- Set the time zone to e.g. Central European Standard Time
- Open the saved file in Numbers 3.0
-> Now the additional income of June is added in June AND July, same for the additional income of December, which is added to November as well.
You can now close the file, switch the time zone to e.g. Greenwich Mean Time, reopen the file again and the bug is gone. It appears again if you switch back to CEST.
When using CEST or any other time zone where the bug appeared, I had a closer look into the format of the cells. Interestingly, if the title row of annual budget by month, where all the months are listed, is selected and the cells' format is changed from Automatic to Date & Time, they are converted completely wrongly to
January
March
March
May
May
July
July
August
October
October
December
December
instead of
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Interesting!
Concluding, I'm not sure whether you can call this a bug or just an undefined behaviour caused by a crappy way of doing things. Very unfortunately this way of doing things badly is spread by Apple in its templates.
Nevertheless, I did report it, hopefully I'm not the only one.
After reading https://discussions.apple.com/message/23577383#23577383, it is definitely a bug, please all report it.
@Jerry: thanks for your elaborate answer, I'll give it a try. You are right that it is dangerous to use strings for months. To be honest I probably wouldn't have done it if I wouldn't have blindly used Apple's Budget template. Unfortunately, this template uses a mix of pop-up menus (probably handled as strings) and automatically formated cells for the months.
Edit: I was using system language English throughout all the tests, so it is not a matter of the language, but most probably of the time zone.
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