https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52240
--- Comment #5 from Johannes Weberhofer <[email protected]> 2012-07-19 19:53:24 PDT --- There are three reasons, why entering "day-month" and "day-month-year" variants of dates should be possible: * Compatibility: This behaviour worked as I described with MS-Ecxel 4+, MS-Access 95+, Staroffice, Openoffice and Libreoffice. So power-users expect that behaviour. * Usability: there is no "." awaylable at the numerical keyboard. So whenever you have to enter dates, you must use the "." from the textual keyboards - this is _very_ time-consuming. * Speed: A typical buisiness-spreadsheet-user who does e.g. some accounting, is using dates within the same year (older/newer dates are the exceptions). So speeds up input, when you can enter DAY-MONTH and the processor converts it into a date within the same year using the default locale's date-format. I have never tried with other locales, but I would expect the following behaviour: A) User enters NUM-NUM: Input processor tries to match the locale's default date format without years. When ok, the current year should be added and the cell should be filled with a date having the standard date format. B) User enters NUM-NUM-NUM: Input processor tries to match the locale's default date format. When ok, the cell should be filled with a date having the standard date format. I do not know, if it was possible to enter "DD-MM HH:MM" before. I do currently not have access to an older version. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Libreoffice-bugs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-bugs
