https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34724

andréb <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #12 from andréb <[email protected]> ---
This problem, automatic translation to date of text in default formatted cell,
still exists in Libo 3.5.7.2
I use the french locale (on Linux), and it doesn't even translate into a date
format that I use.
Worse still, when the format is reset to text, one gets a number not at all
related to the original text.

The only reasonable solution is to turn off all automatic (attempts to) date
recognition.

For the small minority that would appreciate this function, there could be a
non-default option.  If such an option is activated, the type of conversion
should be configurable (it chooses the wrong date format in my case), and also
explicitly reformatting the cell as text should revert to the text entered.

A date in spreadsheet context is a form of text, not a number intended for
calculation.  The fact that dates are normally stored in number format should
not affect the automatic treatment of values entered.

This bug (at the very least in conception) has existed for years, going back to
Openoffice days, as well as the refusal to fix it.  Since when does one
normally do calculations on dates ?

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