yes, I agreed with you -
except don't blame the U.S. for that silly ISO ;-)
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Joep L. Blom <[email protected]> wrote:
On 25-07-12 10:40, anne-ology wrote:
>
>> The ISO is not U.S.;
>> the U.S. uses the confusing month-day-year rather than the
>> European day-month-year;
>> as an historian-genealogist, I've been pushing the European
>> method.
>>
>> This ISO is as strange as changing the time twice/year or using AM
>> or PM following 12: ...
>> see
>> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~**jkorpela/iso8601.html<http://www.cs.tut.fi/%7Ejkorpela/iso8601.html>for
>> an
>> explanation of this idea;
>> [it's 'clear as mud' ;-) ]
>>
>> Thanks for your support!
> Joep
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Joep L. Blom <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> On 23-07-12 21:02, Andreas Säger wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Am 23.07.2012 14:44, Guy Voets wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>>
>>>>> A LibO spreadsheet, made in LibO, Dutch version (no Excel or OOo past).
>>>>>
>>>>> - In LibO 3.5.5, I used to give in dates as 20-7 and they were
>>>>> shown
>>>>> as 20 Jul 12.
>>>>> - In LibO 3.6.0.2, if I enter 20-7, 20-7 is shown in the cell.
>>>>>
>>>>> If I enter 20-7-12, the date is inverted into 12 Jul 2020.
>>>>> So instead of entering 20-7, I now need to enter 12-7-20 to get the
>>>>> desired notation 20 Jul 12.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this a new feature, or a bug?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This is just another anti-feature that has been added to Calc against
>>>> all reason simply because too many inexperienced users who never really
>>>> used any spreadsheets insisted loudly enough.
>>>> I will upgrade my LibreOffice 3.5 to ApacheOpenOffice 3.4.1.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I resent the US way of ISO 8601. We Dutch and other Europeans use the
>>>>
>>> more logical sequence of day-month-year instead of the illogical
>>> year-month-day.(most important first, least important last: very often
>>> the
>>> year can be missed).
>>> Joep
>>>
>>>
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