I'm able to set date-time format (and time-zone) independent of changing my locale on my computers (all Windows PCs though). It leaves my language en-US, my currency $US and my decimal point and comma usage what the US practice is. I suspect that it also leaves alone search indexing, spell-checking, and full-text search as en-US too. It also leaves the long form of dates in English. (I.e., Thursday, November 10, 2010)
I do the same in spreadsheets and other places where fields are used and the application does not use my computer settings by default. There are some applications that don't use the defaults and also don't allow me to over-ride what their defaults are. I don't think this is a problem here. If it is, I favor chasing it down and recording a bug-report. It is common to be able to adjust these within a general locale setting as tuning for individual preference. Is that not good enough? SUGGESTION: Narrow this down to concrete cases in OpenOffice.org where this is not working for you. Let's see if it is simply lack of a known setting or workaround. If there is a block to having what you want already, it would be good to submit a defect report on the specific version where you are having the problem. I am a big fan of date-time systems and will be happy to work with you on that. The current locales are established by international conventions. I think this problem can be resolved without attempting to modify the locale repertoire. -----Original Message----- From: Eustace [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 00:04 To: [email protected] Subject: [users] Re: Locale Setting suggestion 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. emf -- Date Calculator with all-purpose JS code https://files.nyu.edu/emf202/public/js/datecalc.html -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For additional commands send email to [email protected] with Subject: help
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