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ayaniger -> sj:

I've gathered some data about this issue, and I would appreciate your help in
interpreting the data.

In the version of PowerPoint on which the sample presentation, datetest.ppt, was
created,
there are 13 English date/time formats and 6 Hebrew date/time formats. 

In datetest.ppt, the formats are listed on the slide in the same order as they
appear in PowerPoint's “choose date format” dialog box. 

Of PowerPoint's English formats the first 7 have the date alone, the next 2 have
both date and time, and the last 4 have the time alone. 

When datetest.ppt is imported into OOo, the date/time format value is passed as
“nVal” to the function PPTFieldEntry::SetDateTime in
svx/source/svdraw/svdfppt.cxx. If the formats are in English, the value of nVal
corresponds to the format's position in the PowerPoint “choose date format”
dialog box. That is, the first value in the list of English formats is 0, the
second is 1, and so on. If the formats are in Hebrew, for some reason the value
of nVal is increased by 7.  The first value in the list of Hebrew formats is 7,
the next is 8, and so on. This is confusing OOo. It treats the 7, which is
supposed to be a Hebrew date format, as if it were number 7 in the list of
English formats, which is a combined date/time format. Similarly, 8 is treated
as if it were number 8 in the English list. As a result, the last 4 Hebrew
formats appear as times instead of dates, since the last 4 entries in the
English table are time formats.

While “nVal” in SetDateTime tells us the position of the format in the format
list, it seems that there must be another setting which tells us which list we
are looking at. OOo is apparently ignoring that value. Any direction here would
help.

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