On Mar 11, 2011, at 13:35 , Lorenzo Sutton wrote:

> Dear James,
> 
> 
> James Wilde wrote:
>> It is appropriate to say that I am running LibO 3.3.1 on a Mac running OSX 
>> 10.6.6.
>> 
>> I have a letterhead template which includes a date field (creation date).  
>> However, despite several attempts, I am unable to maintain the format of the 
>> date, which I want to present in iso-format: YYYY-MM-DD.  Instead each time 
>> I open the template, the field has reverted to the US style date, MM/DD/YY.
>> 
>> How can I fix the date format as I wish it to be?  This does not appear to 
>> be a question of the regional settings, since I have a custom setting 
>> including the iso-format for the date.
> Over here (LO 3.3.1 on Ubuntu 10.04) everything seems to work as expected. I 
> created a template, inserted date, changed the field to that format, saved 
> it, closed, re-opened LO and selected the template and the date format was 
> correct. How was the template created?
Open a document, format it as I wanted, insert the date field, convert to 
iso-format, save as .ott in the templates folder.  On opening it reverts always 
to US format.

//James
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