Well, the same thing that's wrong with changing the clocks ... ... .... etc. etc. etc. ... ... ...
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Johnny Rosenberg <[email protected]>wrote: 2012/7/25 anne-ology <[email protected]>: > > 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 > >>>> > > > Exactly what is strange with ISO 8601? > > -- 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
