On 11/29/2011 07:38 AM, Bruce Carlson wrote:
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.
Add another problem, in the US the normal date order is month day, year
and I do not know what the proper legalese for dates is. I suspect it is
long British usage carried over from Colonial period legal documents.
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
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