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2006 -------
I think this is wrong. An office package should help people to write texts in
their language, so number formats should conform to spelling rules, not to
technical standards.
And the spelling rules read as follows:
"Dates written with arabic numbers are to be separated with dots e.g. [...]
6.9.1994 [...] Except for special cases, as requirements of computer information
processing or official business rules, or law rules, no other symbols should be
used to separate the elements of a date (e.g. hyphens: 1-1-1995)."
There are no such "requirements" here because if only the date is spelled
according to spelling rules, and the locale is conforming to spelling rules, OO
will interpret the date correctly. And there are no "law rules" that would force
people not to use dots.
"Also, no other order should be used than: day, month, year."
This is even more unambiguous.
The citations come from the "Nowy słownik ortograficzny PWN" ("PWN New
Dictionary of Orthography") which certainly is the most renowned and up-to-date
source for Polish spelling rules. See
http://slowniki.pwn.pl/zasady/629747_1.html (in Polish).
The statement that "We [are?] rather using ISO standards in Poland" is true but
not applicable here. In Germany, Austria, Czech Rep., Slovakia, Slovenia ISO
standards are used too, however their locales are conforming to spelling rules
not to ISO, so it's M.D.YYYY there and this is correct.
For some unknown reason YYYY-MM-DD is in Microsoft's Polish locale--which is
totally opposite to Polish customs and rules--but I can see no reason to follow
this poor language practice in OO. OO shouldn't be contributing to spoiling
Polish language by computer engineers who unfortunately have forgotten what they
had been taught in school. Please change the locale back!
I'm sorry I didn't react earlier but I came upon this issue only after upgrading
to version 2.0.1 last week.
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