You are free to enter any text value you want. As far as the arithmetic calculators named "Calc", "Excel", "Gnumeric" etc. are concermed, the number format is completely unimportant as long as the actual _value_ of a cell is correct.
All the following formatted numbers represent the exact same value: > 01/02/15 > 02/01/15 > 2015.01.02 > Freitag, 2. Januar 2015 > 2015年1月2日 星期五 -- They all sort according to their true numeric value regardless of number format which affects only the appearance. .. All calculations with any of the above values yield the exact same results. -- Using cell styles, a few clicks format all dates within the same document to your liking and these formats are persistent. -- To unsubscribe 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
