https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172365
--- Comment #5 from ady <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Jonny Grant from comment #4) > Hi @ady, > > Thank you for looking into this. > > Is "Date acceptance pattern" included in the requirements specification? If you mean ODF, I don't think so, but I could be wrong. Please consider that the Date acceptance pattern setting is aimed at typing-in, not when importing CSV, which is controlled by the Text Import dialog. This report is currently mixing several points that are somewhat related but still independent. If you want to focus on some kind of heuristic in the Text Import dialog for DD/MM vs MM/DD, that is one thing. The Locale setting in the same dialog is another item for consideration. A different matter is the possible parsing of "MMM" (also dependent on language). And a third independent issue is typing-in dates, which is independent from importing CSV. This mix-up is the reason for my suggestion to discuss things in some forum, and only when things are clearly focused on one issue, then an enhancement request can be filed in, one issue per report. Considering that the manual possibilities are already there (including the possibility that a string such as "20/01/2026" might not be intended as a date at all), careful consideration should be taken, not to make the process of importing any kind of data (not just dates) slower than it is now, just because some "automatic" parsing could potentially be developed. FWIW, correcting and improving the DATEVALUE() function in Calc would have much more impact. > ps. Do LibreOffice developers discuss enhancement requests on LibreOffice > Ask? From what I've seen, it appears to be primarily a user support forum, > and I haven't come across software developers there. You could contact developers in relevant devs mailing lists and by irc. To be clear, I'm not a dev. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
