> really unrelated ? I just try to find an intermediate way which could > satisfy everybody. >
Unrelated in the sense that fixing one would not fix the other. Naturally, they are related as the both discuss the date format. > In that case Calc works as designed so #5556 is not a bug. From my point > of view issue 72229 is a duplicate of 5556. Bug #5556 mentions the fact that the input line for dates differs from the configured date format. I can understand where that would be useful (in fact, I would use it often) however in the current case the input format is the US date format, which is not known outside the US and is counter intuitive (the smallest units are in the middle, not on the left or right side). This leads to dataloss as OOo interprets the dates not as the user intended when entering them. > And I think that the current behaviour is better than the one which is > asked for. > Only if you like entering dates in US format only. I agree that entering dates in format XYZ then displaying dates in format X'Y'Z' would be great, so long as one could configure the two formats. For us non-USians, the US date is confusing (do US watches show the hour in HH:SS:MM format?) and dangerous (leads to data loss). > If you want another behaviour, please write down a detailed > specification which make clear what you want and is applicable to each > local date formatting. http://specs.openoffice.org/ > I want this behaviour (it incorporates issue 72229 as well as 5556): The user configures two OOo-wide (Calc, Writer, etc) settings: a) The default date format for entering dates b) The default date format for displaying dates Both of these settings could be overridden in Calc's Format Cell dialogue and the Writer equivalent. Should I file a spec with this behaviour suggestion? -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
