At 13:40 14/11/2008 -0500, Jim Allan wrote:
Brian Barker wrote:
At 10:54 14/11/2008 -0500, Dale Robertson wrote:
The most sensible format for today in numeric form is 2008/11/14 (ISO ...
Just in the interests of accuracy, ISO 8601 requires that the
separators - if they are used - be hyphens: 2008-11-14. This is
one of the formats provided by OpenOffice, of course - though not
the default in many (most?) locales.
Locales are partly bogus. The basic idea is that there are standards
used within particular areas, usually countries, by about 99% of the
people. But it's not true. In fact, people often vary widely within
countries and even within individual communities.
Sorry: I was unclear (oh, and wrong!) and I think you misunderstood
me. I didn't mean to suggest that there were different standards for
representation of dates in different geographic regions, but merely
that the default format used by OpenOffice for date fields depended
on the locale setting in OpenOffice. But it's not the locale setting
at Tools | Options... | Language Settings that controls this directly
(as I'd imagined), but instead - and as someone has already mentioned
- the language of the current paragraph style.
But the claim I was trying to make still stands: that YYYY-MM-DD is
easily available in OpenOffice, although it is not what most users
will see at first when they use Insert | Fields > | Date.
Brian Barker
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