Re: [libreoffice-users] French/English date

On 11/29/2011 07:38 AM, Bruce Carlson wrote:
> Hi Julius,
>
> I understand your concerns completely. It has bothered me for years but the correct long date 
> format in English or at least English English is :-
>
> eg:
>
> Tuesday the 29th. of November, 2011.
Add another problem, in the US the normal date order is month day, year 
and I do not know what the proper legalese for dates is. I suspect it is 
long British usage carried over from Colonial period legal documents.

> Note the correct use of articles, ordinals, commas and full stops... (the things Americans call 
> periods.)
>
> No word processor or database application I have ever seen can format long dates correctly in 
> English or any other language that I'm aware of and that is why I've written my own code and macros 
> to format dates the way I was taught at school and while that was many many many years ago 
> evolution is no excuse for inaccuracy. To format dates incorrectly seems to me to be an expedience, 
> not an attempt at accuracy.
>
> Whilst we have for many years had to endure commercial applications written in one particular cultural style 
> or another I believe open source is a very good opportunity to get localisations (notice the use of 
> "s" and not zed) correct and if people from various cultures can contribute to this we will all be 
> winners.
>
> Bruce Carlson
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julius Becker [mailto:julius.becker@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 29 November 2011 8:17 AM
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] French/English date
>
> > Hi everyone,
> > LibreOffice (I use version 3.4.4 under Windows 7) offers the possibility to insert a text field 
> > that shows the current date.
> > Although using the German version, I can insert a French date in the worksheets for my students. Unfortunately, there is a little 
> > mistake that bugs me: In French, you normally use the number of the day, the name of>the month and the year. Like "28 novembre 
> > 2011". But on every first day of a month, you have to use the ordinal number: "1er d cembre 2011". LibreOffice (as well 
> > as Word) ignores this rule. It doesn't allow English>date formats with ordinal numbers like "1st/2nd/3rd/4th/5th of December 
> > 2011" neither.
> > I find this hard to believe since this is a common way to write down a date (especially in French).
> > This is why I ask you. Maybe I've been to blind to see the simple answer.
> > Thanks,
> > Julius
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