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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Mon Jul  5 12:48:45 
+0000 2010 -------
To OpenOffice.org
.
My problem with your spreadsheet is your 
default date format of DD/MM/YYYY. 
I prefer to adhere to International Standard 
(ISO 8601) date format of YYYY-MM-DD. 
I have configured my Windows XP to 
adhere to International Standard (ISO 8601) 
YYYY-MM-DD for date and 24-hour HH:MM:SS 
for time. 
.
True, although you allow me to change the 
date format, you make it very difficult for 
me to do so. You give me no way to override 
your default. I live in Canada. The old 
date format here WAS (in the PAST) DD/MM/YYYY. 
But the Standards Council of Canada has 
changed that by adopting the International 
(ISO 8601) of YYYY-MM-DD. 
.
Your =NOW() function does not even include 
the following in its list of formats: 
YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
.
There would be less confusion for you and 
me and everybody else if everybody were 
to agree to a single date-format standard -- 
which is the reason for the existence of 
International Standards. However, instead 
of encouraging users to adhere to 
International ISO8601, by imposing your 
defaults on users, you are discouraging users 
from adhering to International Standards.
.
This comment submitted on Monday, 2010-07-05 08:49

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