Re: [libreoffice-users] French/English date

On 11/30/2011 03:44 AM, Julius Becker wrote:
> Hi at all,
>
> although I like a passionate discussion, it would be nice if we could
> focus on the problem:
>
> In French, you HAVE TO use the ordinal number for the very first day
> of the month when you use the format "1er décembre 2011" (30 novembre
> 2011). That's mandatory. Even other Romance languages (like Italian,
> Spanish and Portuguese) usally/often use it (1º dicembre 2011, 1º de
> Diciembre 2010, 1º de dezembro). So, products should make this
> possible.
>
> Products like LibreOffice should even make it possible to write "30th
> November 2011". I'm no expert of the English language, but according
> to the Wikipedia
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_date#Expressing_dates_in_spoken_English),
> that format isn't completly unusual.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Julius
Apropos of the latter, when I was in the Air Force, some 50 years ago,
I was taught that dates should be written 30 November 2011.  Knowing
the military, it's unlikely to have changed.  And I still write dates that
way.  When I write a letter in LO, I simply _write_ the date, I don't depend
on the software to do it.  If, for some reason, I need it multiple places, I
can always copy and paste it.

--doug

--
For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+help@global.libreoffice.org
Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted