Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Day zero is 1904-01-01 for new spreadsheets
From: Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Sun, 27 February, 2011 23:48:01 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Day zero is 1904-01-01 for new spreadsheets Am 28.02.2011 00:25, NoOp wrote: You might try renaming ~/.libreoffice.org and let LO build a new profile to see if that makes any difference. Resetting the profile cures the problem. No, I don't want to reset my user profile. I'm going to reestablish my default template. Thanks, Andreas Hi Andreas, Now that you found resetting the profile cures the problem it should be possible to copy back some of the things from your renamed profile into the new one. That gets your old settings and stuff back while helping pinpoint exactly which part of your profile was causing the problem. Copypaste is great but if you are in linux then rsync might be better because it keeps permissions and stuff exactly the same. I don't think Windows has something that sophisticated tho so copypaste would have to do. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/rsync Good luck and regards from Tom :) -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-users] Re: Day zero is 1904-01-01 for new spreadsheets
On 02/27/2011 03:48 PM, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 28.02.2011 00:25, NoOp wrote: You might try renaming ~/.libreoffice.org and let LO build a new profile to see if that makes any difference. Resetting the profile cures the problem. No, I don't want to reset my user profile. I'm going to reestablish my default template. Thanks, Andreas You may be able to check/modify the ~/.libreoffice/3/user/registrymodifications.xcu file. From my testing yesterday I see the changes in mine that refer to the Date test: oor:name=CaseSensitive oor:op=fusevaluetrue/value/prop/itemitem oor:path=/org.openoffice.Office.Calc/Calculate/Other/Dateprop oor:name=DD oor:op=fusevalue30/value/prop/itemitem oor:path=/org.openoffice.Office.Calc/Calculate/Other/Dateprop oor:name=MM oor:op=fusevalue12/value/prop/itemitem oor:path=/org.openoffice.Office.Calc/Calculate/Other/Dateprop oor:name=YY oor:op=fusevalue1899/value/prop/itemitem oor:path=/org.openoffice.Office.Calc/Calculate/Otherprop Note the name=YY oor:op=fusevalue1899/value - this value changes when I make the changes (1904) in Tools|Options. The file does not open well in gedit, so I used (U)OOo to open to view then used gvim to modify. I changed the 1899 value to 1904, saved, and then opened Calc - the date value was then set to 1904 in the spreadsheet. The usual warnings apply (backup, use at your own risk, etc) :-) Gary -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-users] Re: Day zero is 1904-01-01 for new spreadsheets
On 02/27/2011 05:05 AM, Andreas Säger wrote: Ubuntu 10.4, LibO 3.3.1. Since many years I use some default template for new Calc documents. Today I reset this default template in the templates organizer. Now every new document gets 1904-01-01 as day zero. This is the respective entry in content.xml: table:null-date table:date-value=1904-01-01/ This does not happen in OOo 3.3. where I performed the same steps. The new document from scratch does not have any table:null-date which defaults to 1899-12-30. Could not find bugs with Null-Date nor 1904. What are you showing for: Tools|Options|LibreOffice Calc|Calculate|Date The default should be 12/30/1899 (or in your case 1899-12-30). -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-users] Re: Day zero is 1904-01-01 for new spreadsheets
This is puzzling: if day Zero is 0-Jan-1900 and day 1 is 1-Jan-1900 for Excel and day Zero is 30-12-1899 and day 1 is 31-12-1899 for both LibO 3.3.1 and OOo Dev101, how come =now() returns the same value in both spreadsheets? -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Day-zero-is-1904-01-01-for-new-spreadsheets-tp2589349p2589990.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-users] Re: Day zero is 1904-01-01 for new spreadsheets
Very interesting, Andreas. Today I learned something about leap years thanks to you ;) http://kalender-365.de/leap-years.php I'm glad I don't have any time series of data going back to the 19th century :) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Day-zero-is-1904-01-01-for-new-spreadsheets-tp2589349p2590985.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-users] Re: Day zero is 1904-01-01 for new spreadsheets
Am 27.02.2011 19:18, NoOp wrote: What are you showing for: Tools|Options|LibreOffice Calc|Calculate|Date The default should be 12/30/1899 (or in your case 1899-12-30). No, the default for all brand new documents (not from template) is 1904-01-01 which causes a lot of trouble when you copypaste dates between documents. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-users] Re: Day zero is 1904-01-01 for new spreadsheets
Am 27.02.2011 19:14, Guy Voets wrote: When you make your template, you can choose your start date here. HTH As already mentioned that I use to use my own default template. This occured to me during a test with a brand new document. Nevertheless, day zero must not be 1904-01-01 for brand new documents. I consider this to be a bug. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Day zero is 1904-01-01 for new spreadsheets
On 27 February 2011 14:04, Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de wrote: As already mentioned that I use to use my own default template. This occured to me during a test with a brand new document. Nevertheless, day zero must not be 1904-01-01 for brand new documents. I consider this to be a bug. I believe it is the default for the Mac, for technical reasons. -- T. R. Valentine Your friends will argue with you. Your enemies don't care. 'When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.' -- Erasmus -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-users] Re: Day zero is 1904-01-01 for new spreadsheets
On 02/27/2011 12:02 PM, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 27.02.2011 19:18, NoOp wrote: What are you showing for: Tools|Options|LibreOffice Calc|Calculate|Date The default should be 12/30/1899 (or in your case 1899-12-30). No, the default for all brand new documents (not from template) is 1904-01-01 which causes a lot of trouble when you copypaste dates between documents. Possibly a profile or locale issue? I just checked LO 3.3.1 on 4 different machines and the default is 12/30/1899[1]. Even checked the Windows version in a VM. To test I first verified that was the default setting in each, then did: 1. Entered a zero in the cell. 2. Format|Cells|Number|Date|and selected 12/31/99|OK The cell is now showing as 12/30/99 and if I click on the cell I see 12/30/1899 in the formula bar. I also closed out all LO's and restarted to see if there was any change they remained the same. Also set one to 01/01/1904 tested. Closed that out and it came back up as 01/01/1904 OK. You might try renaming ~/.libreoffice.org and let LO build a new profile to see if that makes any difference. Sorry, forgot to ask in the first post: are you using the LO deb file or an Ubuntu PPA install? All of my tests are with standard LO deb installs from libreoffice.org/download. [1] Your date display will of course be different as I'm using standard US English. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-users] Re: Day zero is 1904-01-01 for new spreadsheets
Am 28.02.2011 00:25, NoOp wrote: You might try renaming ~/.libreoffice.org and let LO build a new profile to see if that makes any difference. Resetting the profile cures the problem. No, I don't want to reset my user profile. I'm going to reestablish my default template. Thanks, Andreas -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
