https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155194
--- Comment #9 from Eike Rathke <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Serg A from comment #7) > Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US As assumed.. > Yes, I use the setting "English" because I want the interface to be in the > developer's language. However, I feel the date in the "day-month-year" way, > not the "month-day-year" way. As a user, I want to enter the dates as > "day-month-year" and to be able to edit it. I don't want to switch to > German, because then simple things like "IF" will become "WENN" or even much > worse. Simply continue to use the en-US English (USA) UI language, but switch the locale to either de-DE German (Germany) for DD.MM.YYYY dates or to en-GB English (UK) for DD/MM/YYYY dates, instead of fiddling with date acceptance patterns in that weird way. > Other office suits (like Microsoft Excel) have no problems with it. Other suites do not use date acceptance patterns at all. You can input a string that wouldn't be a date in your locale but is converted to an unexpected date anyway. > Once again, the users expect from the software that if something is offered > to edit, the software will understand the input correctly at least if no > information was altered. Here it is not the case. Users should understand that when tweaking options derailing from presets and forcing options that don't make sense it will have consequences. > When some settings in different independent places make this impossible, > then the settings design may be improved. Maybe best to restrict users' freedom and not accept such setting that totally contradicts the locale's date pattern. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
