Hi Julius, I understand your concerns completely. It has bothered me for years but the correct long date format in English or at least English English is :-
eg: Tuesday the 29th. of November, 2011. Note the correct use of articles, ordinals, commas and full stops... (the things Americans call periods.) No word processor or database application I have ever seen can format long dates correctly in English or any other language that I'm aware of and that is why I've written my own code and macros to format dates the way I was taught at school and while that was many many many years ago evolution is no excuse for inaccuracy. To format dates incorrectly seems to me to be an expedience, not an attempt at accuracy. Whilst we have for many years had to endure commercial applications written in one particular cultural style or another I believe open source is a very good opportunity to get localisations (notice the use of "s" and not zed) correct and if people from various cultures can contribute to this we will all be winners. Bruce Carlson -----Original Message----- From: Julius Becker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, 29 November 2011 8:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [libreoffice-users] French/English date >Hi everyone, >LibreOffice (I use version 3.4.4 under Windows 7) offers the possibility to >insert a text field that shows the current date. >Although using the German version, I can insert a French date in the >worksheets for my students. Unfortunately, there is a little mistake that bugs >me: In French, you normally use the number of the day, the name of >the month >and the year. Like "28 novembre 2011". But on every first day of a month, you >have to use the ordinal number: "1er d cembre 2011". LibreOffice (as well as >Word) ignores this rule. It doesn't allow English >date formats with ordinal >numbers like "1st/2nd/3rd/4th/5th of December 2011" neither. >I find this hard to believe since this is a common way to write down a date >(especially in French). >This is why I ask you. Maybe I've been to blind to see the simple answer. >Thanks, >Julius -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
