Re: [libreoffice-l10n] [ANNOUNCE] Locale data date acceptance patterns, localizers HEADS UP please :)

Hi again

When looking closer at the date- and time-formats for sv_SE I find a lot 
of duplicates of YYYY-MM-DD
and YY-MM-DD. There are a few lets say  questionable formats there as 
well. When it comes to time-
formats. I really hope we at least can have HH.MM and MM.SS

Is it possible not to turn inputs on format MM.DD into dates in Calc. It 
is much more likely that it is
supposed to be a time value HH.MM? MM-DD is good to have accepted 
though. Not really sure
if it's possible.

I will have a closer look at the current formats and discuss them 
locally. But that might take some
time so. I appended a few formats to the sv_SE.xml do you want a patch, 
or how should i proceed?

Thanks,
Niklas Johansson


Niklas Johansson skrev 2012-01-18 18:08:
> Hi Eike
>
> > > [... time separator ...]
> > > Is it possible to accept both . and : as separators?
> > No, only one is possible.
> OK, good to know.
> > > 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
> > Which standard would that be? I only know of EN 28601 that followed 
> > ISO 8601.
> Sorry, bad choice of words. The source of information that I used are 
> the recommendations
> that Språkrådet (the Swedish language council) gives. In their book 
> "Svenska skrivregler"
> they state that the format D.M.YYYY is used in all EU-documents 
> regardless of language.
> After some searching on the net I found publications I found this link:
> http://publications.europa.eu/code/en/en-4100500en.htm
> And a few more (Swedish and English) that said something similar to
> "Dates in the text should always be given in their full form (6 June 
> 1992), whereas in footnotes they should always be abbreviated, i.e. 
> 6.6.1992, not 6.6.92"
> > You can define as many date formats (to display dates) you want by just
> > adding them to the locale data file starting with formatindex="50", too
> > many formats in the dialog may just confuse users though..
> Thank you, I'll have a closer look. Did a quick test build and was 
> able to add D/M YYYY.
> I'll discuss things further on the Swedish list and get back to you as 
> soon as possible.
> > For date acceptance patterns, as long as the DMY order stays the same
> > within one locale also multiple separators can be used, ISO 8601 and its
> > YMD order is always supported internally, no need to define anything for
> > that.
> OK, in other words D/M might be a problem for us since the most common 
> format is YYYY-MM-DD.
> I don't think it really matters that much, the most important 
> (commonly used) formats
> are already supported.
>
> --
> Thanks,
> /Niklas

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