Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibO 3.6.0.2 - Calc: date notation

Hi :)
I thought the USA way was the amazingly weird
mm/dd/yy

Apparently it's important to use / instead of - in order to make sure it's easier to mis-read.  
With some people's handwriting an 11 might look like 1/ or vice-versa.  
Regards from
Tom :)  


--- On Mon, 23/7/12, Joep L. Blom <jlblom@neuroweave.nl> wrote:

From: Joep L. Blom <jlblom@neuroweave.nl>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibO 3.6.0.2 - Calc: date notation
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Cc: "Andreas Säger" <villeroy@t-online.de>
Date: Monday, 23 July, 2012, 22:18

On 23-07-12 21:02, Andreas Säger wrote:
> Am 23.07.2012 14:44, Guy Voets wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > A LibO spreadsheet, made in LibO, Dutch version (no Excel or OOo past).
> >
> >      - In LibO 3.5.5, I used to give in dates as 20-7 and they were
> > shown as
> >      20 Jul 12.
> >      - In LibO 3.6.0.2, if I enter 20-7, 20-7 is shown in the cell.
> >
> > If I enter 20-7-12, the date is inverted into 12 Jul 2020.
> > So instead of entering 20-7, I now need to enter 12-7-20 to get the
> > desired
> > notation 20 Jul 12.
> >
> > Is this a new feature, or a bug?
>
> This is just another anti-feature that has been added to Calc against
> all reason simply because too many inexperienced users who never really
> used any spreadsheets insisted loudly enough.
> I will upgrade my LibreOffice 3.5 to ApacheOpenOffice 3.4.1.
I resent the US way of ISO 8601. We Dutch and other Europeans use the 
more logical sequence of day-month-year instead of the illogical 
year-month-day.(most important first, least important last: very often 
the year can be missed).
Joep



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