On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 15:04 -0400, Morten Welinder wrote: > > Format Date has no ISO format yyyy-mm-dd. > > Hmm... I thought we had that one. I will add it.
I remember noticing this was missing at some point. Yes, please add it, often people can be persuaded to use this less ambiguous format if you provide it. > In the meantime, use Custom and enter "yyyy-mm-dd" and you will > get what you want. > > > Format Time has no time zone data. > > That is correct. Times are in fractional days and pays no attention > to timezones. This is semantics that we (and most other > spreadsheets, I believe) have inherited from past and dark times. > It is not likely to change. That leaves you with keeping track of > timezones some other way Generally people aren't very good at timezones and should avoid them. If you can work entirely entirely in local time, try that. Otherwise, pick either a single timezone (say, the one where most people on a project work) or a universal time system (typically UTC, but possibly UT1 or TAI for scientific projects) and use it consistently. Nick. _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list gnumeric-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
