https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150264
--- Comment #9 from C.Rogers <[email protected]> --- It's functionally equivalent to what Calc does when importing a CSV and the user chooses "Date" as a data type for a column. Calc runs through and validates all the cells in that column and converts. This feature just allows this same functionality after import, in case the user missed this functionality, and for new data cut and pasted to multiple cells as text. It also helps in the case that the user accidentally chose the wrong date format, and wants to convert one cell type to another after import. Sometimes lots of work has already been done to other columns, so it would be quite convenient to have this option to validate on conversion of cell type on-the-fly. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
