Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Date will not format or sort when imported into calc (ods)

       Please keep us informed ...
          it might be nice to have the program be able to inject
dd-mon-year and/or dd-mo-year for genealogical research projects  ;-)



On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 12:00 AM, JAMES MAJESKI <jamesmajeski@gmail.com>wrote:

Thank you all for your assistance. You have pointed to features of which I
> was not aware, but found easily. The work-around solution will not be
> necessary. As for not deleting the single quote that is not there, that
> work-around works, but is very labor intensive. I will be doing some
> experimenting to see the best way to implement your suggestions to import
> number and date and time data, but the preliminary test suggests that it
> works on dates in the mm/dd/yyyy mixed-endian format. Now to test it on the
> dd mmm yyyy big-endian and yyyy-mm-dd small endian formats which are the
> three main formats. Of all the formats, I have been using the small endian
> format since the sixties as it sorts properly even in text format. I was
> surprised when I found out that the International Standards Organization
> chose that format and called it ISO8601. Again, thank you all. 2012-09-01
> 51:59:28 Z-07

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