2012/7/25 anne-ology <[email protected]>: > 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> >>> 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 >>>> >>>> > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] > 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 >
Exactly what is strange with ISO 8601? -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] 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
