RE: [libreoffice-users] French/English date

Hi,

In reply to Julius.
I understand your explanation and it seems to me that what you are asking for is a permanent 
correction or addition to an existing function in the French localisation and I'd imagine that that 
would not be too difficult to do. Although I have no real idea of how the current formats are coded 
but I appreciate the frustration people using the French localisations must feel.

However your original post on this subject has sparked much interest and has led to other possible 
adaptations of your original request such as:-

1.      multi language ordinal functions. Imagine being able to select a range of cells in calc and 
setting the format to "ordinal" for any number value.
2 .     expanded functionality in creating custom number and date formats including the use of 
ordinals to allow for people to create their own formats from local custom not only national 
language.
3.      and one I have introduced and that is being able to save custom formats with a friendly 
name that can be, once saved, selected from the existing format list as and when required.

You may also be correct in these ideas not being solved by an extension but by actually modifying 
the LO code itself, that is, embedded directly into LO may be a better solution.

However please don't think that these expansions of your original post detract in any way from the 
importance of your original post because what you have brought to everyone's attention is the need 
to correct an existing flaw, not to introduce a new function, although in order to do what you have 
asked does require the creation of some new functions and it is these new functions that has 
sparked everyone's imagination as to other possible uses .

Bruce Carlson


> -----Original Message-----
> From: julius.becker@gmail.com [mailto:julius.becker@gmail.com] On Behalf
> Of Julius Becker
> Sent: Thursday, 1 December 2011 9:23 PM
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] French/English date
>
> Hi at all,
>
> creating an extension might be a solution, but in my opinion, it isn't a good
> one.
>
> In French dates like "1er d cembre 2011", the ordinal number for the first day
> of a month isn't an option, it's obligatory. You cannot say
> "1 d cembre 2011" like LO does. So, LO should offer the possibility for ordinal
> numbers without a special extension.
>
> The same for English dates. In classes of students who learn English as a
> foreign language, it would be very useful to have a long form of the English
> date on worksheets, including "st", "nd", "rd" and "th".
> Doug is right that one could simply _write_ and copy the date, but in my
> opinion, "fields" are there to ease the work.
>
> Since "DDDDD" could mean in French 1er, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ..., it could be
> introduced even for English as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, ...
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Julius
>
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