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from December 2007
Dear all,
as previously discussed:
determining whether the input is a date without any other clues has
been (almost) proven to be error-prone...
[see http://sc.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=dev&msgNo=2751]
I stumble over and over again upon this issue. To make the story
complete, others stumble on this issue, too, see:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=87999
I sincerely hope that a solution will be implemented to improve Calc in
this respect.
My proposal looks like this:
It is my belief, that OOo needs a mechanism to explicitly set the
date-interpretation algorithm (aka which numbers are dates):
- e.g. should 'dd.mm' be interpreted as date,
- yet others might choose only 'dd/mm'
- and still others only 'mm/dd'
- or only 'dd.mm.yy' and leave 'dd.mm' as a number
Indeed, this would give complete control *back to the users*. Especially users
in multi-locale environments would benefit from this feature, but many others
would be grateful, too.
Sincerely,
Leonard
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