Hi :) I thought the USA way was the amazingly weird mm/dd/yy Apparently it's important to use / instead of - in order to make sure it's easier to mis-read. With some people's handwriting an 11 might look like 1/ or vice-versa. Regards from Tom :)
--- On Mon, 23/7/12, Joep L. Blom <jlb...@neuroweave.nl> wrote: From: Joep L. Blom <jlb...@neuroweave.nl> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibO 3.6.0.2 - Calc: date notation To: users@global.libreoffice.org Cc: "Andreas Säger" <ville...@t-online.de> Date: Monday, 23 July, 2012, 22:18 On 23-07-12 21:02, Andreas Säger wrote: > Am 23.07.2012 14:44, Guy Voets wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> A LibO spreadsheet, made in LibO, Dutch version (no Excel or OOo past). >> >> - In LibO 3.5.5, I used to give in dates as 20-7 and they were >> shown as >> 20 Jul 12. >> - In LibO 3.6.0.2, if I enter 20-7, 20-7 is shown in the cell. >> >> If I enter 20-7-12, the date is inverted into 12 Jul 2020. >> So instead of entering 20-7, I now need to enter 12-7-20 to get the >> desired >> notation 20 Jul 12. >> >> Is this a new feature, or a bug? >> > > This is just another anti-feature that has been added to Calc against > all reason simply because too many inexperienced users who never really > used any spreadsheets insisted loudly enough. > I will upgrade my LibreOffice 3.5 to ApacheOpenOffice 3.4.1. > > I resent the US way of ISO 8601. We Dutch and other Europeans use the more logical sequence of day-month-year instead of the illogical year-month-day.(most important first, least important last: very often the year can be missed). Joep -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
