On 2011-11-09 15:29 Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
It's not so much US Army (especially historically) as ISO and the international standard for recording dates.
That would be another option. The advantage of a US Army setting would be that those in the US wouldn't have to set currency etc. The advantage of an ISO setting would be that people in other countries would be able to use it.
My computer allows me to do that no matter what my Locale is, although not all of my applications pay attention. It is easier to set in some applications, not in others.
Same experiences here.
Perhaps another way to handle this as a feature is to ask that global date settings be in the Tools | Options. Of course, where a specific format (e.g., "yyyy-mm-dd") has been set on a field or table cell, it should be honored as set. But it would be nice to have a way to specify defaults, even if that the settings from the host computer be used.
I agree.
- Dennis Next Up: The unbelievable difficulty of handling date-time values across time zones and across local-time changes.
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