Hi Leonard, On Monday, 2007-12-10 00:19:55 +0200, Leonard Mada wrote:
> Aloow the user to specify, what should be interpreted as a date (and how). > > E.g., IF the user specifies that dates are only strings of the form: > dd.mm.yy or dd.mm.yyyy, then only such strings would be converted to dates Would be a possibility. A list of acceptable input formats, predefined in locale data and customizable by the user. > (also note the *dd.mm* which is different from the American *mm.dd* > format!). Which isn't American, but mm/dd is en_US. > Then only such string would be converted to dates, and NOT *xx.xx*, which > would most probably be a number and NOT a date. Depends on the locale. > Just my thoughts. [This > should be settable either at OOo level, or at document level.] Document level wouldn't be good, as documents are sent around to users used to different locales. Eike -- OOo/SO Calc core developer. Number formatter stricken i18n transpositionizer. SunSign 0x87F8D412 : 2F58 5236 DB02 F335 8304 7D6C 65C9 F9B5 87F8 D412 OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't send personal mail to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] account, which I use for mailing lists only and don't read from outside Sun. Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks.
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