On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 23:28:54 +0200 Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Den fre 31 juli 2020 kl 20:57 skrev John Kaufmann <kaufm...@nb.net>: > > > For many years my filing has used a kind of 'modified-ISO' 12-digit > > date/time pattern: YYYY-MMDD-HHmm. Advantages are that it is > > compact, easily read, sorts and is a valid filename string in all > > OS. > > > > Writer has very flexible field formats, giving the option to > > format Date fields as YYYY-MMDD, Time fields as HHmm, and either > > Date or Time fields as YYYY-MMDD-HHmm -- so it has everything I > > want, with complete flexibility to format as needed. > > > > Calc appears to be not flexible, but seems to use strict ISO > > formatting for Date (YYYY-MM-DD) and Time (HH:mm:ss) fields. /Within > > cells/, of course, there is flexibility to format Date and Time as > > desired. > > > > Draw also appears to be not flexible, but uses /different/ > > formatting for Date (MM/DD/YYYY) and Time (HH:mm:ss AM|PM). This > > seems to be the worst of all possible choices, because the formats > > are neither strict ISO nor as I would like. > > > > Which language settings do you have? I'm Swedish and in draw I can > choose between the following date formats when inserting a date field: > YYYY-DD-MM (default) > DD MMMM YYYY > YY-DD-MM > DD MMM YYYY > NN "den" D MMM YY > NNNND MMMM YYYY > > When inserting a time field I have the following options: > HH:mm:ss (default) > HH:mm > HH:mm:ss,00 > HH:mm AM/PM > HH:mm:ss AM/PM > HH:mm:ss,00 AM/PM > > It's not total freedom, but at least the ISO formats are there. > > I agree though that it's strange that fields don't work the same over > the whole suite. Seems like someone unnecessarily re-invented the > wheel, and did that more than once… I agree with those sentiments. I'm in the UK and Draw doesn't offer me any choices I'm interested in, so I simply won't use it - it's not fit for purpose IMHO. Why can't I use the same formats as you? I've heard, but not experienced, that a Danish locale may be quite useful, if the urge to use the program is stronger than common sense. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
