Hi, On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 15:29, Eli wrote: > Harold Fuchs wrote: >> 2008/11/14 Girard Aquino wrote: >>> >>> [... Insert>Fields>Date ...] >>> >> As far as I know Writer takes its instructions in this area from your >> Operating System's "Locale" settings. [...] > > This does not work for me. Since Windows 95 I have set my own date formats > in Regional and Language Options. OpenOffice.org 1.x--3.0 has always > ignored my settings. Most applications behave this way, and it is quite > annoying. Why can't OOo look in the Registry to use whatever date and time > formats the logged-in user prefers (unless another format is specified in > the document)?
You may vote for issue # 30216 'Ability to set the default date format' <http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=30216> The default date format in Writer is depending on the language setting in the document (all text, paragraph, selection ...) - e.g. -> English (US) 11/14/08 02:53:38 PM English (UK) 14/11/08 14:53:38 Deutsch 14.11.08 14:53:38 Español 14/11/08 14:53:38 [Please see also my first reply] Manfred -- Thursday, 13 Nov 2008 OOo-DEV 3.0 Developer Snapshot (build DEV300_m35) available <http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_024>
