Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 102517
Merge different locales' data, including number formats, into a system locale, according to LC_* variables.
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:33:24 UTC
From http://bugs.debian.org/531920, please deirect further inquiries to its submitter. --- snip --- Initial state: $ locale LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8 LC_TIME=ru_RU.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=ru_RU.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=ru_RU.UTF-8 LC_PAPER=ru_RU.UTF-8 LC_NAME=ru_RU.UTF-8 LC_ADDRESS=ru_RU.UTF-8 LC_TELEPHONE=ru_RU.UTF-8 LC_MEASUREMENT=ru_RU.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=ru_RU.UTF-8 LC_ALL= Actions: 1. Launch openoffice.org application and create new sheet in Calc. 2. Enter =now() function into cell and see for result Expected results: Date displayed according to LC_TIME (ru_RU.UTF-8): "05.06.09 02:10" Actual results: Date displayed according to LC_CTYPE (en_US.UTF-8): "06/05/09 02:12 AM" openoffice.org-base and possibly other applications are affected by this bug. --- snip ---
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*** Issue 102516 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Eike, one for you
I guess one of my next pet peeve long term projects will be to build up a "system locale". Reassigning to spare time account. Issue 51662 is related.
Why is this marked as Feature? It is clearly a bug.
This is an issue for non-windows users. On Linux you have to modify your LC_TIME settings to get the date formats in a way you prefer. Not the best approach but if OOo doesn't use the locale format that is on the account/system, then it would be better to be able to set the default format within the application properties. In a multi-user setting where users set up their home accounts with different locale settings, it may be necessary to look at the individual user locale settings instead of the system wide settings. Again, setting the locale settings within the application make this easier.
So issues for non-Windows users are features, not bugs?
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".