[libreoffice-users] Re: Day zero is 1904-01-01 for new spreadsheets

2011-02-28 Thread NoOp
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'

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Day zero is 1904-01-01 for new spreadsheets

2011-02-28 Thread Tom Davies
From: Andreas Säger 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 buil

[libreoffice-users] Re: Day zero is 1904-01-01 for new spreadsheets

2011-02-27 Thread Andreas Säger
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

[libreoffice-users] Re: Day zero is 1904-01-01 for new spreadsheets

2011-02-27 Thread NoOp
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 templat

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Day zero is 1904-01-01 for new spreadsheets

2011-02-27 Thread T. R. Valentine
On 27 February 2011 14:04, Andreas Säger 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 t

[libreoffice-users] Re: Day zero is 1904-01-01 for new spreadsheets

2011-02-27 Thread Andreas Säger
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

[libreoffice-users] Re: Day zero is 1904-01-01 for new spreadsheets

2011-02-27 Thread Andreas Säger
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 copy&p

[libreoffice-users] Re: Day zero is 1904-01-01 for new spreadsheets

2011-02-27 Thread plino
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-1904-0

[libreoffice-users] Re: Day zero is 1904-01-01 for new spreadsheets

2011-02-27 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 27.02.2011 20:02, plino wrote: 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? Because of the day with no sun

[libreoffice-users] Re: Day zero is 1904-01-01 for new spreadsheets

2011-02-27 Thread plino
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

[libreoffice-users] Re: Day zero is 1904-01-01 for new spreadsheets

2011-02-27 Thread NoOp
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 i