[libreoffice-users] Re: converting txt to dates

Andreas Säger <villeroy -AT- t-online.de>
Mon, 13 Apr 2015 16:17:49 +0200

Am 13.04.2015 um 15:54 schrieb James Knott:

On 04/13/2015 09:38 AM, Andreas Säger wrote:

This __happens__ to work for you. What does "12-04-2015" actually mean?
On my system this will be interpreted as 12th of April. People with US
locale will get a date value referring to the 4th of December.


That is why people should be using only the ISO format.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601


Oh, and 90% of related questions is not about how to correctly import
text data. People want to know how to fix wrongly imported data which is
slightly more difficult than doing it right in the first place.


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