Re: [libreoffice-users] Date format in template

On Mar 11, 2011, at 13:35 , Lorenzo Sutton wrote:

> Dear James,
>
>
> James Wilde wrote:
> > It is appropriate to say that I am running LibO 3.3.1 on a Mac running OSX 10.6.6.
> >
> > I have a letterhead template which includes a date field (creation date).  However, despite 
> > several attempts, I am unable to maintain the format of the date, which I want to present in 
> > iso-format: YYYY-MM-DD.  Instead each time I open the template, the field has reverted to the US 
> > style date, MM/DD/YY.
> >
> > How can I fix the date format as I wish it to be?  This does not appear to be a question of the 
> > regional settings, since I have a custom setting including the iso-format for the date.
> Over here (LO 3.3.1 on Ubuntu 10.04) everything seems to work as expected. I created a template, 
> inserted date, changed the field to that format, saved it, closed, re-opened LO and selected the 
> template and the date format was correct. How was the template created?
Open a document, format it as I wanted, insert the date field, convert to iso-format, save as .ott 
in the templates folder.  On opening it reverts always to US format.

//James
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