Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: ISO

       Well, the same thing that's wrong with changing the clocks ... ...
.... etc. etc. etc. ... ... ...



On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum@gmail.com>wrote:

2012/7/25 anne-ology <laginnis@gmail.com>:
> >        yes, I agreed with you -
> >            except don't blame the U.S. for that silly ISO  ;-)
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Joep L. Blom <jlblom@neuroweave.nl>
> wrote:
> > On 25-07-12 10:40, anne-ology wrote:
> > > >         The ISO is not U.S.;
> > > >            the U.S. uses the confusing month-day-year rather than the
> > > > European day-month-year;
> > > >               as an historian-genealogist, I've been pushing the
> European
> > > > method.
> > > >
> > > >         This ISO is as strange as changing the time twice/year or
> using AM
> > > > or PM following 12: ...
> > > >             see http://www.cs.tut.fi/~**jkorpela/iso8601.html<
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/%7Ejkorpela/iso8601.html>for an
> > > > explanation of this idea;
> > > >                  [it's 'clear as mud'  ;-) ]
> > > >
> > > >  Thanks for your support!
> > > Joep
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >  On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Joep L. Blom <jlblom@neuroweave.nl>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > 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
>
>
> Exactly what is strange with ISO 8601?

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