https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69211

--- Comment #6 from Ady <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> Version: 4.1.3.2
> Build ID: 70feb7d99726f064edab4605a8ab840c50ec57a
> on Windows.
> 
> The following information might require its own separate bug report(s), but
> I think it might be useful for this bug too.
> 
> Using other date-related functions (besides DATEDIF), they _all_ fail,
> except when the referenced cell is formatted with my default locale setting
> in Calc. I have added (for testing) these "Date acceptance patterns":
>  M/D/Y;M/D;YYYYMMMDD;D/M/Y;DD/MM/YYYY 
> but only when using my default English (USA) "MM/DD/YYYY" I get to see a
> result. For example, using the YEAR function, all other formatted cells
> return #VALUE.
> 
> Moreover, I tried using "CELL(FORMAT,A1)", and this CELL function fails with
> #NAME every time (no matter which format the referenced cell A1 is using.
> Any variation of CELL() (e.g. CELL(CONTENTS,A1) and so on) gives me the same
> #NAME result, so probably this is an additional separate bug.
> 
> Since the alignment is also different when using MM/DD/YYY than when using
> other non-default date formats (such as DD/MM/YYYY in my case), it seems to
> me that the bug is not really in the DATEDIF function, but in the way Calc
> is identifying those cells (seemingly, as 'text').
> 
> Regards,
> Ady.

In addition, if I first insert a date as MM/DD/YYYY and *then* I change it to
DD/MM/YYYY formatting, the cell is correctly interpreted as a date.

If I first format a cell as DD/MM/YYYY, and *then* a date is inserted with such
format, the date is treated as 'text' and not as 'date' (say, 18/11/2013), but
if I insert the corresponding value, 41596, the cell is correctly shown as
18/11/2013 with the expected alignment and functions such as YEAR work as
expected too.

BTW, I am having similar experiences (cells treated as 'text') with other
number formats, not just with dates.

Regards,
Ady.

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