>> I cannot reproduce the rounding incident... > > That in itself may be an indication of the cause of the problem... > > It would be of great help if you did manage to stumble across a way to > reproduce the problem. >
I suspect a version-change had something to do with it, and I am not about to go through five OOo versions to test! >> And what of backups? Some files, but not all due to space >> considerations, will simply be put in a BackMeUp directory that will >> be copied to DVD whenever someone feels like it. > > Funny that the organization don´t see the value with backups, even after > this incident.... :-\ > I think that this is a common stupidity. 2009/7/3 Eike Rathke <[email protected]>: > Hi Dotan, > > On Friday, 2009-07-03 09:22:29 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> There were other dealbreakers as well, such as the American dates >> issue when editing a date in Calc. That was and continued to be a huge >> issue, and has caused dataloss in the past. > > But you are aware that the editing date format, as well as all default > display formats if nothing differently applied to a cell, depends on the > locale used on the system, and the locale can be overridden in > Tools->Options->LanguageSettings->Languages? > On my home machine, the system setting is to use the yyyy-mm-dd format and some applications, such as Thunderbird, respect that. Calc does not, I just tested. Kubuntu 9.04, OOo 3.1. Tell me where I err, not the LC_TIME is en_DK.utf8 which forces Thunderbird to give me yyy-mm-dd dates. Calc still does not. $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8 LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
