On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:47:37 +0200
Came this utterance formulated by Dotan Cohen to my mailbox:

> On Kubuntu 9.10 with OOo 3.1 (probably Go-OOo) with the Language
> Options set to use the default locale setting:
> 
> !) With export LC_ALL="en_DK.UTF-8" (which uses the YYYY-MM-DD
> format), entering date as YYYY-MM-DD:
> Calc shows "MM/DD/YY" in the cell, and "MM/DD/YYYY" in the formula
> bar. F2 for cell edit changes the cell display to "MM/DD/YYYY" for the
> duration of the edit.
> 
> 2) Now I configure a cell to use formatting YYYY-MM-DD:
> Calc shows "YYYY-MM-DD" in the cell, and "MM/DD/YYYY" in the formula
> bar. F2 for cell edit changes the cell display to "MM/DD/YYYY" for the
> duration of the edit.
> 

Now i see your issue - ignore my earlier post.

> These are the bugs as I see them:
> 1) The default OOo date display is not the same as the locale's date
> display setting.
> 2) The edit date format is different than the format used for display.
> 
> I am not sure from where the date format for (1) is being taken, it is
> not the US setting that I see in my personal user account. Where is
> this format taken from?
> 
> Regarding (2), I would actually prefer to display and edit dates in
> two different formats, however, they must be configurable. I cannot
> edit dates in MM/DD/YYYY format.
> 
> -- 
> Dotan Cohen
> 
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Michael

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