Let me see: open Calc in LO 3.6.0.2 and format a column selecting
the Category as Date and the Language as English(UK). It does not seem
to matter what is selected as the Format. (I selected 31/12/99.) Enter
20-7 in a cell. It becomes 20/7/12. When 20/7 is entered in a cell of
the column, 20/7/12 is the result.
It is a matter of formatting the column, cell, or row for the type
of data to be placed in the sheet. With the correct format
[English(USA)], I can enter 20-7 in a cell, and it will become Saturday,
July 20,2012 or Saturday, 20 July 2012 depending upon what format I use.
(The last one would require selecting User-defined Category and the
appropriate entries in the Format code box.)
Ah yes, the "weird" USA way. While I had the Format dialog open
with UK as the Language, I noticed something in the list of Format
examples: MM-DD! If it should be DD/MM/YY, then why should it also be
MM/DD? OK so the USA way is weird, but then so is the British. Check it
out. Chuckle, Chuckle! (From where this is located in the Format
example list, I think I know why it is this way. (ISO 8601) But I could
not resist replying to Tom's comment.
--Dan
Tom Davies wrote:
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
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