So the topic is about importing ISO dates, right? Calc, Writer and Base always interprete 2012-09-05 23:45:59 correctly regardless of locale conetex when you type it into some table cell unless the cell is explicitly prepared to accept text only. When using the text import dialog, all you need to check is [X] Detect special numbers as indicated in my first post. All these questions around text import suffer from 2 issues: 1) People import plain text into an application they do not understand. They assume that a spreadsheet is the proper application to import, edit and save database exchange data in plain text. No, spreadsheets are not the right tool unless you really want to import these data into your spreadsheet calculation models. But even then I would import text files through the Base component into the spreadsheet simply because csv is about database data and you can define your special import parameters once for all times. 2) Csv is NOT a file format. It is a mere convention how to represent database rows with constant field count in rows of plain text. Unfortunately, everybody uses different date strings, different decimals, different text quoting, different line feeds and different character encodings. Of course, MS Excel has its own rules which is why database admins usually hate Excel. Calc can handle most of flavours of csv properly with very few effort but in case of problems it is completely impossible to give any advice without actually seeing a couple of data rows copied from a plain text editor. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Date-will-not-format-or-sort-when-imported-into-calc-ods-tp4004907p4005660.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+help@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted