Open Office vs. Excel - dates (corrected)

["Jerry Feldman-2" <user=4@nabble.blu.org>]

 The correction is that cell A1 is a constant. 

I have a spreadsheet maintained by someone on Windows. The sheet must 
calculation a difference in years between 2 dates. 
Example (OpenOffice): 
A1 = 06/04/2002 
B1 = 07/04/2007 
B2 = =DATE(YEAR(B2); MONTH(B2) + 1; DAY(B2)) 
        Replicated down through B69 
C2 = =YEARS($A$1;$B2;0) 
        Replicated down through C69 

In Excel, the formula in C2 (and following) is: 
C2 = =DATEDIF($A$1;$B2;"y") 

The problem is that OOo does not recognize the DATEDIF function and 
Excel does not recognize the YEARS function. Both work well, but in my 
work environment, the spreadsheed is maintained on someone else's 
Windows laptop, but my work environment is Linux on a corporate server 
(RHEL 4). I don't want to install MS office and Crossover office on 
these servers.  Since I'm only dealing with 3 instances on a fairly 
complex spreadsheet, I can live with making the changes whenever the 
spread sheet is changed, but I would like to find a function common to 
both. 


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