On Apr 30, 2011, at 13:25 , xwolf wrote: > Hi James > > The following solution might be of interest if you want to permanently change > all LibreOffice's behaviour to use the ISO date format. > > So I did the following (LibreOffice 3.3.2, on Windows XP): > ** In a hex-editor (HxD for example), I opened "C:\Program Files\LibreOffice > 3\program\localedata_en.dll". (DLL version 3.03.202) > ** PS: Make a backup of this file before you try this! > ** At offset "BB44" I found the following unicode string: "MM/DD/YY" - you > might > find this string at some other offset... > ** I changed it (unicode!) to "YYYY/MM/DD" - which I wanted. > ** (PS: make sure you stay consistent with the "00" filler bytes that unicode > strings require for this to work) > > This worked for me :D - even files that were created before this modification > now showed their dates in the "yyyy/mm/dd" format. 8-) > > Final thought: It would be nice if the developers added an option "Don't use > locales" or a "NoLanguage" language option - this would make this sort of > workaround unnecessary. >
Thanks, Xwolf. In my case the problem proved to be a corrupt configuration file. Unfortunately the config file is not what I would call user friendly, so just which bit of it was corrupt I'm not able to say. I simply renamed it and the system created a new one for me. Haven't noticed anything else that had altered. //James -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
