2012/7/23 Joep L. Blom <jlb...@neuroweave.nl>: > 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
I never heard that one before… Isn't the year more important than the day? Do you prefer SS:MM:HH too? To me, ISO 8601 (which happens to be the same as the Swedish and a few more standards in this matter…) is logical: Long time to the left, shorter time to the right: Year, month, day, hour, minute, second, decimals. Anyway, no matter if you prefer year-month-day or day-month-year, there will be no problem to understand what is written, if the year is written with four digits (five after the year 10000, if humans exist by then…). Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ -- 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
