Personally, I find this response a bit disturbing. If Open Office is trying to take over corporate World, then Open Office should not be telling users that they have to adapt to some arbitrary standard. In my thoughts that is unacceptable.
Mike -----Original Message----- From: Michael Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 10:53 AM To: discuss@openoffice.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [discuss] Will Bug 48822 be worked on before the next major release On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:03:53 -0500 Champion, Patrick wrote: > Writer messes up date formats of Word documents with am/pm formats. > I can not use it to work on our corporate files because it messes up > the date formats. This is important when you have project dates in > documents and get garbage. > > Please consider correcting this bug by 2.4 version. I would even > consider helping out if I also wasn't completing my Masters in > statistics. > Consider talking your company into using the international ISO date formats which prevent personal interpretation messing with time. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
