2009/12/11 Andreas Saeger <saege...@onlinehome.de>: > Dotan Cohen wrote: >> >> Please, please, this is killing me. >> $ date +%x >> 2009-12-08 >> >> However, Calc insists on using the mm/dd/yy year format in new >> documents. The settings under Language are all Default. What must I do >> to have OOo respect the locale settings?
That's strange. I have Ubuntu 8.10 and OpenOffice.org Calc 3.1 (vanilla version - not the Ubuntu version) and the default format seems to be YY-MM-DD, which indeed is the Swedish default format. Which OpenOffice.org language pack is installed on your system? Johnny Rosenberg >> >> I know that this issue has been addressed tens of time on the list but >> I cannot find the "answer" in the archives.There is a bug (or rather, >> several) on the issue but I think that I saw a method or workaround >> posted once on the list but I cannot find it. >> >> > Your locale setting is "Default" and your operating system locale is US > English. The program accepts your locale using its own setup for this > particular locale, so your document will look exactly the same on other > systems. It makes no sense to use the current system's customized locale > settings when documents have to be exchangable across systems. There is no > bug, since the number formatting behaves exactly as it has been designed > intentionally. > Simply use the given formatting facilities, styles in particular, in order > to override the plain defaults. > Btw: The format of a number is completely irrelevant as long as the value is > the correct number. No calculation result depends on number formatting. > 8/12, 12/8, 2009/12/08, it's all the same day number 40155 or 4015500%, > $40155.00, 40.155,00€, ... > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
