On Ubuntu Feisty I have OOo 2.2.0 installed. One of the columns of a
certain spreadsheet is a date column, and I have specified in Format
Cells -> Numbers -> Date the YYYY-MM-DD date format. However, OOo
fails to recognize dates such as 14-09-2006 as a valid date, while a
date such as 11-04-2006 (April 11th) is recognized and then converted
to 2006-11-04 (November 4th). This seems to be because OOo has the
days and months confused. How can I configure OOo to recognize
xx-xx-xxxx as DD-MM-YYYY instead of MM-DD-YYYY? This is my locale
info, if significant:
LANG=he_IL.utf8
LC_CTYPE="he_IL.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="he_IL.utf8"
LC_TIME="he_IL.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="he_IL.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="he_IL.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="he_IL.utf8"
LC_PAPER="he_IL.utf8"
LC_NAME="he_IL.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="he_IL.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="he_IL.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="he_IL.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="he_IL.utf8"
LC_ALL=he_IL.utf8
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Note that my KDE install is in Hebrew, however OOo is in English. It
is set to use the User Interface and Locale "default", which in my
opinion should be Hebrew. Gnome (which I do not use) _may_ be set to
English. I cannot open Gnome however, due to a stupid fault of the ATI
proprietary drivers (long story). So configuring OOo to respect the
KDE defaults may solve this problem. How is that done?

Thanks in advance.

Dotan Cohen

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