Hi all,
Issue 77973 further discusses the Date-issue (see
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=77973). That issue is
still unconfirmed, but in the meantime I think it is really justified to
confirm it. Therefore, someone with the appropriate rights should
change the issue to "NEW".
Niklas Nebel wrote:
Leonard Mada wrote:
Formatting dates based on the system locale is BAD, BAD, BAD in a
*mutli user environment*, because you end with both MM/DD and DD/MM
and a lot of confusion.
Whatever step is taken, please consider that multi-user environments
contain usually also multiple locales, en-US being frequently one of
the locales. Please also note, that even the date is often not stored
correctly, because when you enter new data in a new cell (or old
cell), cells might be formatted like MM/DD/YYYY although the user
expects DD/MM/YYYY.
If you don't explicitly assign a number format with a locale to cells,
Well, but I do not like the default formatting. And many of my
colleagues don't like it either. And considering that I am usually
working on a US-en locale (to avoid countless of other problems), the
default date-formatting will be really weird, a format that I never
encountered in any of the countries where I worked. And considering that
my tastes differ sometimes from those of my colleagues, it always ends
up in a mess.
I could impose some strict use of a date format on a user level. But
this is the wrong path. Having better control over Calc is the better
solution.
Sincerely,
Leonard
every user can view and edit numbers and dates according to his
configured locale. I consider that a good thing and don't want to
change it.
[Do you believe that users have always full access to set their locale
in a business environment? And how many do really set their locale
correctly? Experience teaches me that almost non of the users sets the
locale on his work-computer - just as a side note.]
Niklas
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