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Hi

I'm currently looking in to the Swedish (sv-SE) date-patterns. I'm not quite sure how to deal with a few things. In Sweden the official standard for time is "H.MM" (or "HH.MM"). It is also very common and accepted to use the international standard with : as a separator. It is so common that it actually got changed to this i OpenOffice.org and
inherited into LibreOffice.

Is it possible to accept both . and : as separators?

Common dateformats that LibreOffice doesn't support for Swedish include:
D/M
D/M YYYY

EU-standard (not seen that often but since were in the EU and all EU documents ,
use this format it would be a good thing to support):
D.M
D.M.YYYY

The SS-ISO 8601 standard YYYY-MM-DD is the most frequently used format and
the current standard for Swedish in LibreOffice. Is it possible to support all
these formats?

When it comes to date acceptance I'd say that maybe D/M might be good to accept besides the ISO standard of course. I do not think that it is a good idea to accept
the D.M though.

I did a quick test modifying the sv_SE.xml but got stuck building afterwards.

I suppose my later questions all depend if there is any possibility to support
multiple separators.

Thank you for any guidence
Niklas Johansson


Eike Rathke skrev 2012-01-12 14:43:
Hi,

In order to get rid of the annoying "accept every input as date that
might resemble some date in almost any locale" behavior I recently
implemented locale dependent date acceptance patterns that need to be
matched for date input, for full details see
http://erack.org/blog/archives/8-LibreOffice-date-acceptance-patterns.html

If in your locale input of incomplete/abbreviated dates shall be
allowed, this will need a<DateAcceptancePattern>  element be added to
locale data, for example in en-US it's "M/D" and in de-DE it's "D.M."
(both already in).

Just mail me the pattern(s) for your locale, I'll add it then.

Thanks
   Eike


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