Re: [libreoffice-users] Date acceptance patterns and date/time fields

2020-07-31 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2020-07-31 18:26, Dave Howorth wrote: ... I agree though that it's strange that fields don't work the same over the whole suite. Seems like someone unnecessarily re-invented the wheel, and did that more than onceā€¦ I agree with those sentiments. I'm in the UK and Draw doesn't offer me any

Re: [libreoffice-users] Date acceptance patterns and date/time fields

2020-07-31 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2020-07-31 17:28, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Den fre 31 juli 2020 kl 20:57 skrev John Kaufmann: ... ... Draw also appears to be not flexible, but uses /different/ formatting for Date (MM/DD/) and Time (HH:mm:ss AM|PM). This seems to be the worst of all possible choices, because the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Date acceptance patterns and date/time fields

2020-07-31 Thread Dave Howorth
On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 23:28:54 +0200 Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > Den fre 31 juli 2020 kl 20:57 skrev John Kaufmann : > > > For many years my filing has used a kind of 'modified-ISO' 12-digit > > date/time pattern: -MMDD-HHmm. Advantages are that it is > > compact, easily read, sorts and is a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Date acceptance patterns and date/time fields

2020-07-31 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den fre 31 juli 2020 kl 20:57 skrev John Kaufmann : > For many years my filing has used a kind of 'modified-ISO' 12-digit > date/time pattern: -MMDD-HHmm. Advantages are that it is compact, > easily read, sorts and is a valid filename string in all OS. > > Writer has very flexible

[libreoffice-users] Date acceptance patterns and date/time fields

2020-07-31 Thread John Kaufmann
For many years my filing has used a kind of 'modified-ISO' 12-digit date/time pattern: -MMDD-HHmm. Advantages are that it is compact, easily read, sorts and is a valid filename string in all OS. Writer has very flexible field formats, giving the option to format Date fields as