Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 91856
date format bug
Last modified: 2017-05-20 10:27:53 UTC
I was so enthused to get openoffice - really, really excited. Then found the dealbreaker. The date format issue just crushed my dreams. The U.S. default date format issue as described in Wikipedia is a non-starter for the rest of the world and some folks in the U.S. too, I'm sure. It's gotta be able to be somehow linked to Regional Options or its useless to any application that's heavy into date sensitivity. What a shame. Sure hope it's fixed soon.
I don't understand your description. Please describe step by step. What do you do, what does OOo show and what do you expect to see. Because date format depends on language and local please add: What is your setting in Tools > Options > Language Settings > Languages? What is your setting in the cell style 'Default' on the Numbers tab in the category All and in the category Date? What date format do you have set in operating system?
Regina, actually, I don't do anything. Kinda mislead you. While I was enthused to download OOo, I haven't done so because of the following criticism in Wikipedia re OO0 Calc. At the bottom of the entry it states - "OpenOffice.org Calc has been criticized for: When editing a date, the date is displayed in US date format irrespective of the users' Locale, which is surprising given its international aspirations. Users can enter ISO 8601 dates, but may only edit them in another format." I've checked other links re this issue and there are quite a few with the same issue stymieing them. That's why I'm choosing to hold off until it's fixed. Were I to download it, my settings currently within Windows OS are: Regional and Language Settings - English (Canada) - which has its date values set to: Short Date: 20 Jul 2008 Long Date: Sunday, 20 July 2008 Perhaps if I were running Linux there wouldn't be an issue?
Note: this is technically not a valid bug report since the user has not even used OOo to confirm the validity of an alleged bug. That said, he is referring to this wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Calc which refers to Issue 5556 about the said bug. That means this is a duplicate report of Issue 5556. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 5556 ***
closing a dupe.
Sorry, don't know how this works. But was/is Issue 5556 a valid bug and is it being worked on? Do I continue to follow 5556 to see if/when it's resolved/worked around? Thanks.
>Do I continue to follow 5556 to see if/when it's resolved/worked around? Yes. You can CC yourself to that bug to track its progress. You are only supposed to open a new bug when you encounter a new one yourself, not when you read a web page that says the bug exists (because the information may not be current). If it's still current, then it's likely that the bug has already been reported so that you don't have to file a new one.
Thanks a lot.