[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc DATEVALUE() accepts only locale format

2012-03-05 Thread Ferry Toth
Thanks Brian, This exactly how I solved it. But cumbersome given that DATEVALUE seems to be intended to do just this. Thanks, Ferry Brian Barker schreef op ma 05-03-2012 om 00:32 [+]: At 22:35 04/03/2012 +0100, Ferry Toth wrote: With the dutch localization DATEVALUE accepts 1-jan-2011

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc DATEVALUE() accepts only locale format

2012-03-04 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 04.03.2012 22:35, Ferry Toth wrote: Couldn't datavalue take the locale of the formatted cell? Or is there a better trick to ge this done? The same probably holds for other localized conversions as well. Ferry Convert the text to number using the appropriate formulas and locale.