https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143508
Bug ID: 143508
Summary: Locale-specific arguments must be treated depending on
the cell's number format locale
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
URL: https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/319335/how-to-
convert-non-standard-text-to-date/
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Calc
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: mikekagan...@hotmail.com
CC: er...@redhat.com
There is an inconsistency how different spreadsheet functions treat their
locale-specific arguments.
TEXT [1] takes cell's locale when processing its 'Format' argument, and thus
'=TEXT(0.1;"0 000.000")' will give different results depending if cell's number
format is set to en-US or ru-RU: "0 000.100" vs "0 000. 000".
DATEVALUE [2], OTOH, does not take cell's number format locale into account
when parsing its argument, so that '=DATEVALUE("03 Jun 2019")' will give the
same result irrespective of the cell's settings - it would be a date when
program's locale is en-US; and it will be Err:502 when program is set to ru-RU
locale.
These should be made consistent, depending on the cell's locale to allow
flexibility.
[1]
https://help.libreoffice.org/7.2/en-US/text/scalc/01/04060110.html?DbPAR=CALC#bm_id3147132
[2]
https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/scalc/01/func_datevalue.html?DbPAR=CALC
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