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 > > http://what-is-what.com > http://gibberish.co.il > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
