https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161377
Bug ID: 161377
Summary: Create an option to set ISO 8601 as the default date
format for any locale.
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Localization
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: j...@psilosoph.de
The subject should tell everything.
Currently each locale comes with its specific "default". This creates confusion
again and again, aggravates community help, causes time-wasting there, and
ecourages the perpetuatiuon of outdated stubborn formats.
There will soon be more and more cases where the century becomes unclear even
for dates that were "current" once when data keeping was already done with
computers.
Does nobody remember the "y2k" confusion?
A special case is the ambiguity created by the US "standard".
Counter-standard date formatting can cause very serious problems if it afflicts
data exchange via csv-styled files.
Of course, we can't assume people will drop bad habits as soon as the requested
feature is available. However, people who want to get it better would be
supported and encouraged.
BTW: An extremely absurd way to show date and time related information is how
the sofware and the settings(?) used by the ask.libreoffice site does it.
People may even be mislead to believe that's also a "standard".
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