Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: ISO

On 07/25/2012 03:53 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
> Everyone has their own way of doing things.
>
> Date formatting is just one of the things.
>
> In the USA we use Month-Day-Year.  There was a movement to go metric 
> to be more like Europe, but that failed.
>
> Some place go year-month-day, since the day changes faster than the 
> month and the year.  That would make year sorting easier if you do not 
> have a system that would sort dates as a non-number.
>
> So having
>
> Month-Day-Year
> Day-Month-Year
> Year-Month-Day
>
> as the possible formats can mess people up when you just use 2 digit 
> numbers.
>
> As I said, each country, or professional group, will use whatever date 
> format they prefer to use, was taught to use, or were ordered to use 
> [military].
The only problem is when you need to confirm dates outside your 
group/country. There is a possibility of confusion over the date.
> I do not think we can get everyone to do it the say way.  Be nice, but 
> not going to happen.
>
> That is why there are so many different date formats to choose from 
> with most packages that have an ability to format the dates.
>
>
>
> On 07/25/2012 03:43 PM, anne-ology wrote:
> >         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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Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com


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